Said another way, no matter how much or fast technology (social, mobile, real-time) is thrust upon your markets, the one thing that remains constant is that people will use it to connect with one another, learn and discover, create and curate, and most importantly, share and feel experiences.

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As I was reading it, I wondered if perhaps I was somehow cosmically thrust into some worm-hole time-warp back to 1955.

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At the same time, some Democrats have warmed to the general thrust of Mr. Ryan's approach.

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Sir Peter's recent knighthood in the Golden Jubilee honours and his controversial time curating the Royal Academy's prestigious summer exhibition thrust him back into the public eye.

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All of this will be thrust on us by something that Kurzweil calls the Singularity, a theorized point in time in the not-so-distant future when machines become vastly superior to humans in every way, aka the emergence of true artificial intelligence.

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Jane Fonda here appears eyes ablaze, jaw firmly thrust out: a fiery vision to match one's memories of the actress during that time.

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Across the Europe, the Russian steppes and through the Byzantine wonder of Constantinople, gateway to Asia, Kerbouchard is thrust into the heart of the treacheries, passions, violence and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.

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