Often, the tools we use to control our lives end up controlling us.
In order to celebrate the tools we use every day, Forbes.com has counted down the 20 most important tools of all time.
In discussing my work, he would also share his own thoughts and works in progress as if it were perfectly natural that we all should re-examine the world and the tools we use to do so.
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In order to celebrate these devices, and so we might reflect upon the ways that we are the tools we use, Forbes.com decided to compile a list of the 20 most important tools of all time.
Think of all the other tools we use to indulge our vanity and pursue our desire for self-expression and self-promotion.
Contrast this with most of the business tools we use.
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The tools and technologies we use to reach our goals change rapidly.
"We have to use all the tools we have, " said Blanchard.
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"These new findings challenge the world to make better use of the tools we have to reduce the impact of Aids, including prevention and care, and to speed up the search for an Aids vaccine, " Mr Piot added.
These early tools closely resembled the knives we use today, consisting of a piece of metal that was sharp on one end--the blade--and dull on the other--the tang.
Christine Finn author of "Artifacts: an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley" who spoke at the festival, felt preserving this old technology helped create a sense of personal history: "I like to think of the objects that we use as tools as being pieces of autobiography, " she said.
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It wants to not only build the tools but also create the network that we use them within.
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So we're trying to use open-source software development ideas to take the tools we've developed internally and make them publicly available.
As the Vice President announced in June 2010, we have expanded the use of cutting-edge fraud mapping tools to gather enormous quantities of information in real time, analyze the data, and connect the dots to identify indicators of possible fraud or error.
"As a Welsh government, we are determined to use the tools currently at our disposal to support the housing sector in Wales by boosting the supply of affordable housing in tough times, " said Ms Hutt.
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"My dream is that these transposable elements will be tools that we can use to make the mouse more like the fruit fly, " says David Largaespada, a researcher at the University of Minnesota.
But if we ever wanted to consider treaties on cyber disarmament, or regulations on the use of hacking tools by those wishing to do more than simply spy or steal, we would become immediately stymied by how to enforce the rules.
So a large number of the jobs we have created in the last four years are in areas where employers use all of their tools to minimize work.
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Schools have an obligation to ensure a safe learning environment for everyone and we will continue to use all of the tools in our law enforcement arsenal to ensure that all students can go to school without fearing harassment.
We have to be willing to use all the tools in our negotiation toolkit.
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Thus, we are led to conclude that the diagnostic tools currently in use by the climate community to study feedback, at least as implemented, are problematic and immature and generally cannot be verified using observations.
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When we tested that device we tried to be productive, but the lack of support for x86 Windows apps meant we were without an IRC client and didn't have access to the suite of text-, photo- and video-editing tools we use on a daily basis.
While we are making it easier for more people to use the analytical tools, the goal is not to eliminate the need for trained analysts.
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''Fiscal consolidation has to be done in the medium term, '' he says, ''but going forward, the IMF's general advice will be that governments can use more tools than we would have advised ten years ago, including stimulus and capital controls.
In software terms, we now have so many collaboration tools available to us that we are lost in the forest of possibilities of what to use when and for what.
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Instead, we have to use unconventional tools, such as LSAPs and guidance about the future path of the federal funds rate.
We particularly liked the ease of use of Keynote's chart and table tools, which work within the application, and its transition effects, both for moving between slides and for introducing elements within an individual slide--though overuse may eventually make us as tired of Keynote's revolving cube transitions as we are of PowerPoint's wipes.
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In the early days of game-based training, we were looking at how you could use those types of tools for selection and assignment of people.
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