But what's important to recognize here also is that, actually, this year we've seen, if you will, a slowing down or even a flat-lining of this seemingly inexorable growth of the roles of social media.So in many countries, the number of people who say they get news from social media has stayed flat or even declined slightly year-on-year.
That's just a death knell for oil, right? That's inexorable . No matter how you feel about politics, that's going to happen. And then you put in the final nail and you say, oh, by the way, we have fracking.
But the article, I remember, was essentially about the rise of fascism, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Toledo, Barcelona. It looked inexorable . This monstrous shadow spreading all over the world. And this is long before the Holocaust.
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. And it's an inexorable march from, as I say, ape to angel, because we all think of ourselves as being such angels.
Let's move to Alberta, Canada, and look at some of the things happening around the tar sands. There's not this inexorable progression until all the trees are gone.
young age you get caught in a rip tide you got to swim across the riptide you can't swim and against it and I think there are these inexorable trends that run through our life and through society and that one cannot fight against and it's important to be aware of these Trends because you can bang your head against a brick wall and never get anywhere whereas if you use a little bit
Now likewise, when we talk about today's economy, we focus on smartphones, artificial intelligence, apps. And here too, the inexorable march of technology is thought to be responsible for disrupting traditional work, for phasing out the employee who works for a regular wage or a salary, and phasing in independent contractors, consultants, temps, and freelancers-- of course, none of whom are at Google--
I really want to meet someone who doesn't know what Amazon is. But at the same time, is it an inexorable movement towards that?
will open a strange chasm between her and her partner that neither can fully understand nor articulate. At times, this quest to find narrative embodies feels inexorable , like a tic I cannot suppress. Stopped at a red light, I cannot help but watch through the windshield for the cadence of someone's gait crossing the street in front of me.
who are reliant upon the weaknesses and can't escape from those weaknesses as well and very rarely actually tap into the strengths. So that diagnosis, it acknowledges things that are kind of inexorable forces like globalization and technological change. But it also says look.
We haven't been posing solutions to what to do about this unwanted care in our health care system today. Whatever the next new fixes, nature eventually takes her inexorable course.
So that's Ehrlich's idea that if you can take action now, then we can avoid problems in the future. "Or changes will inevitably," he said, "be forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature," And so I think this aligns in a lot of ways with Ehrlich's ideas.
At the close of the novel, Victor Frankenstein heads out onto the ice towards the pole in pursuit of his monster. Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket follows its protagonist on his inexorable journey south towards its Antarctic climax.
It's not can we. Sometimes, you read stuff out there that makes it feel like the economic outcomes will be dictated by inexorable forces of global change or technological change. I actually believe those forces are extraordinarily important.
because we choose the ideas ourselves rather than because the environment chooses them. And that is going to result in progressive and constructive change of an incremental, gradual, inexorable kind, which is essentially a form of evolution-- that evolution has jumped into the technological sphere, as well.