It pushes the ball forward, rather than backward.

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Rather than talking about backward-compatibility, enterprise now has to embrace forward-compatibility, designing systems based on new technology to meet evolving user needs and creating customer value.

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This trend of tracking our emotional states leads us to focus backward rather than forward.

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Additionally, by tracking your happiness, the app can cause you to continually be looking backward through rose-colored glasses rather than staying in the present.

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The first is to dismiss pastoralism as a backward pursuit, an embarrassment to notions of modernisation rather than a proven response to a harsh environment.

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Rather than flapping from back to belly, their wings are moving more like limbs reaching forward and scooping backward.

ECONOMIST: Birds that don't fly may be using their wings to run uphill