Pyramid
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155 examples of Pyramid in a sentence
It's at the top of the
pyramid
of evidence.
And corporations are very like religions in many ways, except they're right down at the bottom of the
pyramid
of needs.
You can see my wife struggling to stack a brick of postcards on a
pyramid
of over a half-million secrets.
And because fertility rates fell across that very same period that life expectancy was going up, that
pyramid
that has always represented the distribution of age in the population, with many young ones at the bottom winnowed to a tiny peak of older people who make it and survive to old age, is being reshaped into a rectangle.
It changes the variety, it changes the global pyramid, it changes all sorts of things.
But there's also less choice, because in a global pyramid, you can't always tell what you want.
This is some of the most exciting stuff in development and democracy, where citizens on the edge of a network are helping to force open the process to make sure that the big global aid promises and vague stuff up at the top really delivers for people at a grassroots level and inverts that
pyramid.
I hear once in a while, "OK, I'll grant you that, but technology is still a tool for the rich world, and what's not happening, these digital tools are not improving the lives of people at the bottom of the pyramid."
The bottom of the
pyramid
is benefiting hugely from technology.
But let's suppose that our aim is to bring new economic activity to the base of the
pyramid.
Not to undersell how messy and ugly the aftermath of the Arab Spring has been, neither to oversell the role of technology, but these things have given a sense of what's possible when the age-old model of power, the pyramid, gets turned upside down, putting the people on top and the pharaohs of today on the bottom, as it were.
So the relative change that ET, Educational Technology, would make, would be far greater at the bottom of the
pyramid
than at the top, but we seem to be doing it the other way about.
Despite exercising three or four hours every single day, and following the food
pyramid
to the letter, I'd gained a lot of weight and developed something called metabolic syndrome.
It operates a rotating
pyramid
made up of three components: civil service, state-owned enterprises, and social organizations like a university or a community program.
If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people, and you are respectful to everybody, and that changes this power
pyramid
under which we live.
The future of the world will be a network, not a
pyramid
turned upside down.
The revolution of which I am speaking is a nonviolent revolution, and it's so revolutionary that it even revolutionizes the very concept of a revolution, because the normal revolution is one where the power
pyramid
is turned upside down and those who were on the bottom are now on the top and are doing exactly the same thing that the ones before.
What you can see here is the German age pyramid, and there, the small black point at the top, that's me.
Instead, what they did is they began to see the people at the bottom of the pyramid, the young sparks, the people who were closest to the customers, as the source of innovation.
In Vineet's language, this was about inverting the
pyramid
so that you could unleash the power of the many by loosening the stranglehold of the few, and increase the quality and the speed of innovation that was happening every day.
Microcredit has been a great, innovative way to expand financial access to the bottom of the
pyramid.
The headquarters is a massive
pyramid
with a single room at the top level, two rooms on the next, and so on.
We know the control panel has to be as high up as possible, so let's make our way down the
pyramid.
So, armed with these techniques, back to the
pyramid.
In the industrial age, society was a
pyramid.
At the base of the pyramid, you needed human labor.
In the middle of the pyramid, you had an information processing, a bureaucracy class, and at the top of the pyramid, you had your owners of capital and your entrepreneurs and your creative class.
The bottom of that pyramid, automation, is going to take over.
Is it just going to be that very top of the pyramid, in which case, what does everyone else do?
Do we actually attempt to invert the pyramid, where you have a large creative class, where almost everyone can participate as an entrepreneur, an artist, as a researcher?
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