Wanted
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But five and a half days in a row, and live, we
wanted
some help.
Mounted on roads or on police cars, Automatic License Plate Readers capture images of every passing car and convert the license plate into machine-readable text so that they can be checked against hot lists of cars potentially
wanted
for wrongdoing.
But more than that, increasingly, local police departments are keeping records not just of people
wanted
for wrongdoing, but of every plate that passes them by, resulting in the collection of mass quantities of data about where Americans have gone.
That was the first attempt, but it didn't seem substantial enough to convey whatever it was I
wanted
to convey about Rome.
Or one evening when electricity had failed for eight hours in our community, and my dad sat, surrounded by all of us, telling us stories of when he was a little kid struggling to go to school while his father, who was a farmer,
wanted
him to work in the fields with him.
Nobody
wanted
to work with us.
It used to be that if you
wanted
to get a computer to do something new, you would have to program it.
In 1956, he
wanted
to get this computer to be able to beat him at checkers.
I
wanted
to see how children coped with challenge and difficulty, so I gave 10-year-olds problems that were slightly too hard for them.
These people literally
wanted
me dead.
But it was really important to do that shoot, because while some
wanted
to kill me, it was also a situation where those who viewed the American flag as standing for everything oppressive in this system felt that they had a voice, and that voice needed to be amplified.
She
wanted
to see if there's any difference in the way her classmates move.
I was angry, I was bitter, and all I
wanted
was revenge.
The first time I met with the prisoners, I asked them why they were asking for a writing workshop and they told me they
wanted
to put on paper all that they couldn't say and do.
Right then I decided that I
wanted
poetry to enter the prison.
So a new system appeared, new rules that made them understand very quickly, - very quickly - that with poetic language they would be able to say absolutely whatever they
wanted.
And what you see there is the state following individuals, people that, like you,
wanted
to change their country, and they jotted everything down.
The library grew as they contributed their own manuscripts, but the rulers of Alexandria still
wanted
a copy of every book in the world.
Because a couple years after Brazil was awarded the World Cup, we heard that the Brazilian government
wanted
to do something meaningful in the opening ceremony in the country that reinvented and perfected soccer until we met the Germans, of course.
But what Brazil
wanted
to do is to showcase a completely different country, a country that values science and technology, and can give a gift to millions, 25 million people around the world that cannot move any longer because of a spinal cord injury.
And this is what we
wanted
to show during the World Cup, and couldn't, because for some mysterious reason, FIFA cut its broadcast in half.
And then they
wanted
to take Isabelle, but her husband stepped in, and he said, "No, please don't take Isabelle.
Well, the reason why militias had attacked Isabelle's village was because they
wanted
to take the land that the villagers needed to cultivate food and to survive.
After a few basic questions that we would all ask, I agreed to loan him the money, but under one condition: that as the financial professional in the family, I
wanted
to meet with him and his wife to see what was really happening.
I
wanted
them to be better than this.
Now, compare that to what the Civil Rights Movement had to do in 1955 Alabama to protest the racially segregated bus system, which they
wanted
to boycott.
So this approach works really great for drawing how to make toast, but what if you
wanted
to draw something more relevant or pressing, like your organizational vision, or customer experience, or long-term sustainability?
I
wanted
to create a stack of books so that somebody could come into the gallery and think they're just looking at a regular stack of books, but then as they got closer they would see this rough hole carved into it, and wonder what was happening, wonder why, and think about the material of the book.
We
wanted
to see how good we could do.
And in the process, of course, we
wanted
people to know everything, and we
wanted
to be truly democratic about the way we ran things.
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