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But this emphasis today on forcing biological research to specialize and to produce practical outcomes is actually restricting our ability to interrogate life to unacceptably narrow confines and unsatisfying depths.
It also opened up new capabilities, like the ability to have ranges of cells.
Our ability to work is constrained.
Our ability to go to school is impaired.
So, as computers are going to augment our ability to imagine and design new stuff, robotic systems are going to help us build and make things that we've never been able to make before.
But what about our ability to sense and control these things?
Trenches have been dug between people, yes, but we all have the ability to build the bridges that cross the trenches.
It's the ability to deal with fractions, percentages and decimals.
What is new, and what we will have in a few months, I hope, is that ability to use this same renewable energy system to provide and produce oxygen on site.
Broadly speaking, the ability to separate and enrich biomarkers with nanoscale precision in an automated way, opens the door to better understanding diseases such as cancer, with applications ranging from sample preparation to diagnostics, and from drug resistance monitoring to therapeutics.
I wonder what that means for that health system's ability to, let's say, detect influenza."
At a point in time we saw the written word become pervasive, people thought we would lose our ability to memorize.
That ability to send a message saying, "This is where I am," is really, really important.
We need to make our voices heard and our dollars count. Now, we actually have the ability to change the world on this one.
There are also many, many positive things about patriotism, and the ability to have a large number of people care about each other, sympathize with one another, and come together for collective action.
And then in a long and complicated process, the tribes coalesced together to form the Chinese nation, which controlled the entire Yellow River and had the ability to bring hundreds of thousands of people together to build dams and canals and regulate the river and prevent the worst floods and droughts and raise the level of prosperity for everybody.
It's a very difficult problem, because in a world where people lose their ability to be employed, the only thing they are going to get is this basic income.
But still, given the dangers that we are facing, I think the imperative of having some kind of real ability to force through difficult decisions on the global level is more important than almost anything else.
YNH: Well, first, it should be emphasized that it's true that political leaders' ability to do good is very limited, but their ability to do harm is unlimited.
You have that kind of ability.
And we just need to discover what our role is and then play it to the best of our ability.
I mean, intelligence basically is the ability to solve problems.
Consciousness is the ability to feel things, to feel joy and sadness and boredom and pain and so forth.
In the last hundred years, people are losing their ability to be in touch with their body and their senses, to hear, to smell, to feel.
At the same time, I cultivate a set of carnivorous plants for their ability to emit fleshlike odors to attract prey, in an attempt to kind of create this symbiotic relationship between my bacteria and this organism.
What are the thresholds between science and its ability to shape our emotional landscape?
They'll give a $10,000 prize to anyone who can show, under scientific conditions, that they have a paranormal ability.
So he had this, I've seen this ability in him to be the master marketer.
I think that they really, really spent a lot of time talking about political correctness, and how people should have the ability to say what they think.
But what if we could keep using Styrofoam and keep benefiting from its cheap, lightweight, insulating and excellent packing ability, while not having to suffer from the repercussions of having to dispose of it?
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