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At the time, the strongest emotion was of wonder at the transcendent powers of technology.
No one has traveled faster than the crew of Apollo 10, and blithe optimism about technology's powers has evaporated as big problems we had imagined technology would solve, such as going to Mars, creating clean energy, curing cancer, or feeding the world have come to seem intractably hard.
He has a very important job of monitoring all of the electricity coming into the system to make sure there is enough so it powers everybody's homes.
Why did Nikola Tesla have to invent the alternating current that powers the lights in this building or the city that we're in?
My fellow psychologists have shown that we're led by our bodies and our emotions and use our puny powers of reason merely to rationalize our gut feelings after the fact.
Terrorism is something that provokes an emotional response that allows people to rationalize authorizing powers and programs that they wouldn't give otherwise.
ES: Right, so there is an argument to be made that the powers of Big Brother have increased enormously.
Now, that hasn't happened since the government's surveillance powers have increased by several orders of magnitude, and that's why we're in the problem that we're in today, but there is still hope, because the power of individuals have also been increased by technology.
I think there's also an amazing arrogance to the idea that he knows better than the framers of the Constitution in how the government should be designed and work for separation of powers and the fact that the executive and the legislative branch have to work together and they have checks and balances on each other, and then the judicial branch, which oversees the entire process.
CA: Snowden said two days ago that terrorism has always been what is called in the intelligence world "a cover for action," that it's something that, because it invokes such a powerful emotional response in people, it allows the initiation of these programs to achieve powers that an organization like yours couldn't otherwise have.
Or do you think that is not a legitimate reaction, that it's only because it's now come out publicly, that they really knew exactly what you were doing with the powers they had granted you?
Then at mid-stance, the bionic limb outputs high torques and powers to lift the person into the walking stride, comparable to how muscles work in the calf region.
He has a normal physiology, so these exoskeletons are applying muscle-like torques and powers, so that his own muscles need not apply those torques and powers.
And he said, "Well, instead of using one stroke and two strokes, let's use a one and a zero, and we can count by powers of two."
And you have to remember, it wasn't that long ago that the royal family in England were considered to have magical healing powers.
But with great power comes great responsibility, and you all like to think that if we had such powers, we would only use them for good.
Now, people who don't exercise their normative powers in hard choices are drifters.
He used his military influence and personal wealth to stack the Senate in his favor, while retaining the powers of a tribune and the right to celebrate military triumphs.
There, they threw themselves into a tangled mass of conflicts among the established powers all over that region.
The undergraduate students who demonstrated superhuman powers through their hard work and dedication.
And so the risk that we face is that we can create these huge power vacuums that will very quickly get filled up by de facto powers, like the military or highly motivated and already organized groups that generally lie on the extremes.
What we have to do is treat critical thinking with respect and be inspired by examples like the Health Media Collaboratory, and as they say in the superhero movies, let's use our powers for good.
Now, far be it from me to argue with the magical powers of caffeine, but I don't think reducing tension is one of them.
We're fast moving into a future where everyone in the world will have access to one of these, and it has powers I never could have imagined 11 years ago when I started StoryCorps.
He's working on a single project at the moment, which is, does the Thucydides Trap about the inevitably of war between rising powers and established great powers apply to the future of China-U.S. relations?
When after that, the Western powers carved China up into little pieces, so that by the time it got to the '20s and '30s, signs like this one appeared on the streets of Shanghai.
Brains and neurons have no causal powers.
Here are three multipotentialite super powers.
Chrétien probably based his Grail’s powers on magical objects in Celtic mythology.
All three feature the original armchair detective, C. Auguste Dupin, who uses his genius and unusual powers of observation and deduction to solve crimes that baffle the police.
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