Ability
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Where does medical
ability
end and start?
I don't have the
ability
to control my left foot.
My reading
ability
improved, but these forced reading lessons didn't exactly inspire a love of reading.
Moonlighting as a stand-up comedian for the past eight years, I understand the importance of cultural competency, which I define as the
ability
to translate what you want someone else to know or be able to do into communication or experiences that they find relevant and engaging.
This has a chilling effect on people's
ability
to use the Internet to hold government accountable.
And it's economic empowerment and the
ability
for a woman to say, "I am as much contributing to this family, or more, than you are."
And even if I'm wrong about those two things, even if they were able to take back the country, even if they were to invite back Al-Qaeda, it's extremely unlikely that Al-Qaeda would significantly enhance its
ability
to harm the United States or harm Europe.
But they've never had the
ability
to build even the basic infrastructure or the resources.
Amartya Sen won his Nobel Prize for saying, "Guess what, famines happen in the presence of food because people have no
ability
to buy it."
And I think as that happens, it's going to become possible for our digital personas to continue to interact in the real world long after we're gone thanks to the vastness of the amount of content we're creating and technology's
ability
to make sense of it all.
I think that's going to become completely possible as the amount of data we're producing and technology's
ability
to understand it both expand exponentially.
They seem to lack the
ability
to learn from others by copying or imitating or simply watching.
A sense of place: your
ability
to create places that are meaningful and places of quality and character depends entirely on your
ability
to define space with buildings, and to employ the vocabularies, grammars, syntaxes, rhythms and patterns of architecture in order to inform us who we are.
And your
ability
to define space and to create places that are worth caring about all comes from a body of culture that we call the culture of civic design.
It is that
ability
to really stand strong and to recognize also that I'm not separate from this suffering.
In fact, it also shows something interesting, that although our capabilities and technology have been expanding geometrically, unfortunately, our
ability
to model their long-term behavior, which has also been increasing, has been increasing only arithmetically.
In China, the definition of literacy is the
ability
to read and write 1,500 Chinese characters.
In India, the definition of literacy, operating definition of literacy, is the ability, the grand ability, to write your own name in whatever language you happen to speak.
I love this quote that says, "Hope is the
ability
to hear the melody of the future.
At 13, with only little English and being bullied at school, he escaped into a world of computers where he showed great technical ability, but he was soon being seduced by people on the Internet.
They are all people who demonstrate advanced
ability
in maths and the sciences.
Which is a fantastic story, unless you think about humanity's footprint on the planet, and our
ability
to keep up food production.
So just finally, cancer is an inevitable outcome of the
ability
of our cells to divide and to adapt to their environments.
But you might not realize that our
ability
to look into the body in this simple way, using our senses, is quite recent.
HyperCard actually created the
ability
to jump around in a story.
And then, once you hit the threshold where the mutation rate is so high that you cannot self-reproduce, you cannot copy the information forward to your offspring without making so many mistakes that your
ability
to replicate vanishes.
We were learning from them about their activism and their
ability
to come together, not only to discuss problems but to discuss solutions.
But strangely, tweets have an uncanny
ability
to reach their intended destination.
So what the Polymath Project suggests, at least to me, is that we can use the internet to build tools that actually expand our
ability
to solve the most challenging intellectual problems.
But today, we have new technologies, we have new opportunities to share our knowledge in new ways and the
ability
to create tools that actually allow us to solve problems in entirely new ways.
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