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Foreign agents learn of their work and sabotage the plane, hoping to stop the inventors and allowing the spies to steal the
invention.
In its annual survey of leading global risks, the World Economic Forum noted that, “the
invention
of cheap, synthetic alternatives to high-value agricultural exports … could suddenly destabilize vulnerable economies by removing a source of income on which farmers rely.”
The most successful recent example was the
invention
of the political party "Motherland," which took protest votes away from the liberal parties as well as from the Communists.
The
invention
in the mid-1970's of technology to clone and sequence DNA opened new vistas for research, and its use on humans and other mammals has been enormously successful in terms of scientific discovery.
An understanding of these forces enables innovators to optimize the direction of
invention.
But even if the ISCC’s patent applications are not excluded on these grounds, there is another potential roadblock for applicants: Under European law, an
invention
can be patented only if its commercial exploitation is deemed not to controvert “ordre public” or morality.
In fact, the European Patent Office (EPO) is not particularly committed to assessing the moral implications of the patents it grants; in its view, “ordre public” would be violated only in the extreme case of a truly outrageous
invention.
Rational humans, Kant concludes, must recognize that they have a duty to abstain from a practice (lying) that, if adopted by everyone at once, would annul our most precious
invention
(language).
If there is one lesson that economic policymakers should heed in 2015 and beyond, it is this: Just as
invention
is dynamic, so are the industries it creates.
Answers that were touted in the 1960's--revival of the gold standard, or the
invention
of a common European currency--do not appear to be very helpful any more.
A world, in which states’ hard power is contending with the soft power of transnational ideas, invention, and finance, needs rules.
It also motivates innovators from a variety of industries to take on complex problems that must be addressed by more than one kind of
invention.
In support of his thesis, he offers several examples of “parallel instances” of invention: there were six separate inventors of the thermometer, three of the hypodermic needle, four of vaccination, five of the electric telegraph, and so on.
Pandora’s InboxNEW DELHI – A half-century before the
invention
of e-mail, T. S. Eliot asked, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Since the
invention
of money thousands of years ago, there has never been a monetary system with hundreds of different currencies operating alongside one another.
It was not the
invention
of the steam engine alone that deserves the credit.
And, in the real world, it is the social contract, with its institutions and procedures, its modes of deliberation, delegation, and mediation, and, in particular, its votes, that stands behind the noble
invention
of a “people” and accounts for the fact that those who comprise it occasionally take a break from tearing each other limb from limb.
The
invention
of motor vehicles largely wiped out jobs building or operating horse-drawn carriages, but generated millions more not just in automobile factories, but also in related sectors like road construction.
It is both an
invention
– a prosthetic foot made from cheap materials costing about $45 (versus $8,000 for a similar device in the United States) – and an amazing, low-cost network of clinics around the world that has served more than 1.3 million people with new limbs, calipers, and crutches.
At that point, we must admit that it is irrational to spend time on long conversations with friends if it is time stolen from inventing, say, new software (unless the conversation helps the invention).
As the cliché has it, necessity is the mother of
invention.
His answer: “the relatively inflexible and, hence, more costly labor markets of these economies appears to be a significant part of the explanation… Europe has participated in the wave of
invention
and innovation, but appears to have been slower to exploit it”.
Humanity has faced threats to its existence and the health of the planet before, yet we have managed to avoid the apocalypse, or at least postpone it, through ingenuity and
invention.
Indeed, Mr. Foxley's profile is so perfect for the position that people who don't know him may believe that he is an
invention.
The success of Europe’s newly established science centers and festivals in reaching their potential audiences reflects their
invention
of a new way of teaching and learning.
But Chisti’s research has implications far beyond the
invention
itself.
Having been commissioned by all-powerful Zeus and designed to his cruel specifications by Hephaestus, the god of invention, Pandora was a lifelike android created to look like a bewitching maiden.
The popular image of Pandora reeling back in horror as a cloud of evil swarms out of the jar is thus a modern
invention.
That nuclear fusion is a source of energy has been known since the
invention
of the hydrogen bomb.
True, the blind pursuit of profit is not the
invention
of any one people.
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