In July Toyota unveiled a concept bicycle, the PXP, with a thought-controlled gear-shift mechanism.
But in 1985, David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, came up with a thought experiment that might do this.
We have taken this to the point that it is the management of knowledge has become a significant drive in many organizations, with a thought to be able to transform any practice or item of knowledge into an asset.
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Novy-Marx concludes with a thought experiment where he substitutes GASB accounting with an identical system where future liabilities are discounted at the muni rate (after all, the risk of non-payment to pensioners is no different, or in most case lower, than the risk to bondholders).
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At Vassar College, in the 1980s, the argument was usually framed with a thought-experiment: Imagine that you wake up in a hospital bed, hooked up to a machine and soon realize that if you disconnect yourself from the machine, the person in the next bed will die.
With a little thought, one can put together a mini cellar that not only meets all your wine needs, but will expand your knowledge and shine a little ray of light on the magic of understanding how wine evolves in the bottle, improving and mellowing with age.
With a little thought, brick and mortar retailers can turn showrooming from a negative into a positive.
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Let me start with a deep thought: You are the most important person in the world.
As I stared at the four remaining faces, I was struck with a strange thought.
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Each is run separately with its own budgets and goals with nary a thought of the bigger entity.
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The teacher was arrested on Monday along with a man thought to be her husband and both have been released on bail.
With Microsoft trying to please its legacy customers, and Apple abandoning its own with barely a thought, bloatation had become a sore point between the two.
George Arzt, a consultant who once worked for Mr. Liu but is now unaffiliated with a campaign, thought that meant his 15% share of the vote in a matchup with the other candidates was likely the highest level his support could reach.
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You want to enter the interview with a well-thought out message that answers the most basic questions that might come up during a discussion of the subject.
By marrying a fundraising approach predicated on psychographics with solid thought leadership, a nonprofit will be able to dramatically raise its stature with near pinpoint precision.
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We end with a New Hampshire memory and a thought on how time moves.
As operating systems go, it's probably the nicest around, with a well-thought-through user interface.
As McCain bantered with reporters, his paragraphs were often interrupted mid-thought with a loud request for Buchanan, usually concerning the temperature.
I've never worked with a muse or thought, Oh, I am so inspired by her, because I'm not doing the collection for one woman.
Sacha from Blackpool struggled with being thought a girl through school.
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At last week's Acker wine auction, he sat at a central table at the Tribeca Grill in downtown Manhattan, raising his paddle frequently, casually, just a little flip of the wrist, confident that his bid would be registered, sometimes lowering it with a shrug when he thought the price had gone too high and sometimes dueling on a particularly choice lot until he won.
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In fact there was a day back in 1977 when I woke up as a politician with no thought of being anything else, but went to bed that night about to become a political interviewer.
Guys, if you are deep into watching sports, meat and potatoes, and never having to bother yourself with a new or original thought for the rest of your life, don't even think of marrying a career woman.
Because the department was so riddled with problems, some thought a true outsider was needed, someone with no history in New Orleans and no allegiances inside the department.
Included with it is a small silk flag with 46 stars, thought to have been donated by Morey during World War I, and a gold cross Littrell added.
Ms. Ullman explains that on one occasion in her career as a software engineer she tried to fix some code with what she thought was a tiny change and she succeeded in bringing the whole system down.
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There are losing political candidates and their staffs who, like my son, a sophomore, can ease their pain with the thought that they have a chance to fight again another day.
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Authors have a larger opportunity that I believe will quickly expand to include popular personalities and thought leaders with a large and avid constituency and a partnership with an adept writer, if necessary.
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Another is with a former public official who's thought a lot about these questions of presidential leadership.
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