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So Google has pushed the pendulum of technology to the absolute limit of commoditization, to the point where people who spent their whole lives developing really valuable, compelling entertainment and really valuable, compelling journalism and really valuable, compelling novels, can't make money doing it anymore.

So the key point is, I don't know where we're going to stop as the pendulum swings back.

The harp has four separate pendulums, and each pendulum has 11 strings, so the harp swings on its axis and also rotates in order to play different musical notes, and the harps are all networked together so that they can play the right notes at the right time in the music.

It's the same reason that a radiator has long coils, to increase surface area compared to volume to let heat out, and because the leg is like a pendulum, the longer and thinner it is at the extremity, the more energy-efficient it is to swing.

And the answer is that architecture works on the principle of a pendulum.

So we do that, and you're happy, we feel like sellouts, so we start experimenting again and we push the pendulum back and back and forth and back and forth we've gone for the last 300 years, and certainly for the last 30 years.

We push the pendulum back into the other direction.

So architects get frustrated, and we start pushing the pendulum back into the other direction.

Ordinarily, the pendulum would just swing back into the other direction.

So my theory is that when you apply media to this pendulum, it starts swinging faster and faster, until it's at both extremes nearly simultaneously, and that effectively blurs the difference between innovation and symbol, between us, the architects, and you, the public.

Just as a grandfather clock relies on the constant swinging back and forth of a pendulum under gravity, the tick tock of an atomic clock is maintained by the transition between two energy levels of an atom.

No matter how skilled a clockmaker may be, every pendulum, wind-up mechanism and quartz crystal resonates at a slightly different frequency.

With a low center of mass, the wheel just swings back and forth like a pendulum, then stops.

So the pendulum, as it swings, is used as a tool to create the piece.

So each of the piles of objects go right up to one centimeter to the tip of that pendulum.

But with the pendulum, it allows me to manifest these invisible forces that are holding the magnets up.

Each of these beautiful paintings, are they images in and of themselves, or are they records of a physical event called the pendulum approaching the canvas?

You're using your built-in dynamics, the physics of your body, just like a pendulum.

The clock's pendulum just made hands align on 1am.

Indeed, the pendulum of geopolitical leadership is now in motion.

In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum.

The pendulum has since swung in the US, with biological theories of mental disease displacing all other causal contenders.

For more than 50 years, humanity has warily eyed that lethal pendulum while statesmen debated how to mend its fraying cords.

Now, as the pendulum swings back, it risks overshooting the optimal combination of private and public activity and ending up at a simplistic view of government as the problem and the private sector as the solution.

Now the intellectual pendulum may be swinging back to the belief that state action can mop up markets’ messes – just as veneration of the state in the 1930’s followed market worship in the 1920’s.

It would be better to stop the twentieth-century ideological pendulum and return to some older precepts.

Europe's lumpen outsiders are becoming insiders as the Continent's political pendulum swings to the right.

In the years running up to the 2008 financial crisis, the pendulum swung toward the non-interventionist end of the spectrum.

For, if the Orange Revolution demonstrated one thing, it is that Ukraine’s politics are not those of the pendulum, swinging predictably between opposing forces that agree on the fundamental rules of democracy.

I understand why the pendulum has swung so heavily the other way.

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