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More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and any political renaissance must counterbalance the appeal of vast virtual communities with resilient urban societies.
Citizens must become reengaged with the political process, educated in public affairs, and provided with real (not merely virtual) platforms to air their differences and debate alternative views.
Humiliating a small country and rendering it a virtual protectorate does not serve Europe’s long-term interest.
It cannot have escaped their notice that to uphold indefinite detention of foreign nationals without judicial process would have made them virtual pariahs on the conference circuit.
For the first time since the fated 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, virtual climate activism moved into the real world.
Another casualty will be regulation, at least for a while, as policymakers struggle to figure out how to manage an increasingly complex, dynamic, and virtual financial system.
Or will they evolve to serve virtual communities, organized around new sets of challenges and opportunities?
But this avoids the important interconnections between the physical and virtual layers of cyberspace.
Virtual politics, whatever that will be, is around the corner.
As of the mid-1980’s, there were more than 300,000 cases of polio per year worldwide, despite the disease’s virtual elimination in the richest countries, where vaccination was routine.
Such organizations engage in virtual diplomacy and try to bypass the traditional structures used by UN agencies.
Indeed, the second conclusion to be drawn from the US government shutdown is the virtual disappearance of American triumphalism.
But even a virtual one-party state could not contain the agenda-setting power of a hardened opposition, namely PAS, which lost its home base, Kelantan, to UMNO after eight years of political cohabitation.
Engineering a More Responsible Digital FutureZURICH – The world is being battered by technological disruption, as innovations such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things, blockchain, 3D printing, and virtual reality change how societies and economies work.
In other words, they have to purchase virtual land from the city.
There has been pressure to impose targeted sanctions aimed at impeding the financial operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which holds a virtual monopoly over strategic industries such as banking, defense and construction.
Because of the financial crisis, many politicians have accepted the argument, in a virtual throwback to Adam Smith, that financial services are unproductive – even counterproductive – and need to be scaled back by governmental intervention.
Though the Smoot-Hawley tariff increases were modest compared to those under Fordney-McCumber, their timing turned the act into a virtual synonym for bad trade policy.
It is ushering in a world in which virtual and physical systems are intertwined in manufacturing, services, and the human body itself.
It was possible to experience being a refugee through a virtual reality headset, – or through the actual experience of donning a headscarf and spending 75 minutes being treated like a refugee and facing heart-wrenching choices in a simulation created by the Crossroads Foundation.
China’s government has blocked Liu’s wife, the acclaimed photographer Liu Xia, from participating by keeping her under virtual house arrest in Beijing.
If it rejects a country's policies, the country faces virtual destruction by market panic, as has now occurred in Ecuador.
Computers have "viruses," and there is talk of the "natural evolution" of software, which, like Darwin's organisms, will fend for themselves in the new environment - virtual organisms evolving in virtual seas.
Virtual training programs, for example, allow students to practice using expensive machinery without interfering with actual production – and with no risk of damaging the equipment.
But, on the morning of June 2, a virtual massacre occurred, as local Internet service providers were ordered to block Jordanians’ access to hundreds of news Web sites, including AmmanNet.
Such policies include online education courses for the unemployed, digital workers’ insurance, virtual unionization, and tax policies geared for the sharing economy.
Making matters worse, as May herself declared when she was campaigning for the Remain camp ahead of the referendum, there is no such thing as a virtual border between countries with different tariffs.
In fact, it is not really an organized market, but only an informal virtual exchange.
And debt and deficit concerns will remain, with the virtual certainty of at least one sovereign-debt restructuring in Europe.
The US and the other nuclear powers proposed to keep the two-tier system in virtual perpetuity.
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