Even the world of physical things will soon become an information technology with the advent of 3D printing (The Economist Magazine recently had a picture of an actual violin that was printed out on a 3D printer).
The answer depends on whether you mean innovation in the world of atoms (physical things) or innovation in the world of bits (software).
Academia, especially area studies, seems to exist solely now just to put the best spin on things and to make, you know, if, you know, your area of study is the Muslim world, none of these things that we're talking about, these historical aspects, these primary sources, Koranic and historical, that I'm quoting, you'll never hear these.
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Because the world is full of things for consumers to believe in, and in the battle for consumer devotion, no brand is sacred.
Of course, as with all things in the world of technology, time passes, the cost of micro cells falls dramatically and how to use this frequency very effectively is resolved.
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The world we see is full of them, but the world of physics, our ultimate arbiter on the nature of things, is made up strictly of colourless fields and particles.
If it does, the Iraqis certainly have the human and physical resources to transform their nation into a model of prosperity, civilization and opportunity in a region of the world that has known too little of these things of late.
We may have lost some innocence, moreover, but America still remains a bastion of civil and political freedom and a locus of economic opportunity in a world not precisely overflowing with either of these things.
What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.
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One of the great things about being a coach is that you get to meet a wonderful variety of people doing amazing things for the world, and Liane is one of those.
He was liberal-minded, xenophile, wistful and tolerant, in a world that was none of these things.
If you care about the poor of this world then buy things made by poor people in poor countries.
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In the quantum world, things traditionally thought of as waves, such as light, can also be viewed as particles.
When it comes to the world of work today, most things are uncertain.
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Soren Lund is teaching the world new ways of building clever things.
But when you have your heart and mind set on certainty in an uncertain world, the natural chaos of things can upset your plans.
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Make fun a part of your world with more things to do than there are fish under the sea, with nearby attractions that don't require wishing upon a star.
When a monk takes a vow of silence, he does so in order to shut out the world and devote himself exclusively to things of the spirit.
The envy of the rest of Europe and most of the rest of the world is having serious trouble in the seemingly simplest of things - merging with one another.
My forecast is a growing crisis in Europe, a contagion effect in the European banking system, a resulting credit freeze, spreading to the rest of the world, and basically a rerun of many of the things that happened in 2008.
That these abstractions then formed the basis of profound discoveries about how the world actually works is one of the fundamentally weird things about science.
You have to be able to laugh at many things, because when you think of the worse things in the world that could happen to your company, they will happen.
But the history of this country and the history of the world is full of examples of good men who did bad things.
Engineers are creating the tiny computers to attach to the things of this world.
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Science has full reign in explaining the world around us in terms of how things happen (secondary causes).
The victory in World War II is one of the things that unites all Russians, our correspondent adds.
The downturn in the rest of the world may yet cool things down.
Words held no security with Hanwell Snr, served as no anchor, bore no relation to the things of the world.
And the young Ms. or Mr. Asia has a great appetite for the good things of this world rather than those of the next.
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