But the ability to imagine, to dream, to picture things as they might be is one of the things that is essential to civilization.

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Certainly money comes with success, but the measure that most entrepreneurs hold themselves to is the ability to make things happen, imagine a better future, and through sheer force of will and unwavering determination make it happen.

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It begins with the ability of each of us, across the world, to imagine a better world and work to create it.

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Implantees like Andrew imagine the ability to unclutter their pockets of keys and keycards and instead access their cars, computers, and homes with with a mere wave of the hand.

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Imagine having the ability to carry every James Bond movie in HD, every season of both "Mad Men" and "Glee" and the entire catalog of the Rolling Stones, as well as thousands of photos.

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Another handy feature here is the ability to hide or lock certain panels, and we can already imagine the use case of stowing away rarely used system apps or bloatware.

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As you can imagine the lawsuit dramatically impacted our ability to operate the company.

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In 2007, Demis Hassabis, a research fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London, and his colleagues published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing in five amnesiac patients an impoverished ability to imagine and describe future events.

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Imagine if you live out in the boonies somewhere with the ability to receive only one or three local stations.

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