decade turns out friends 2007 may be understood in time as the single greatest technological inflection point since Gutenberg and we completely missed it because of 2008 so think about what happens right when the world let's like we're on a
Her first great discovery, made in the mid-1940s, was that the language of Linear B, whatever it was, had been an inflected language. That is, that it relied on word endings, much as Latin or German or Spanish does, to impartgrammar to its sentences.
In the Linear B examples, as in the Spanish, the highlighted portions of the words are the inflections, and the un-highlighted portions are the stems to which the inflections attach. Now this pattern of inflection, in turn, let Kober identify critical relationships among the characters of Linear B. And this was her second great discovery.
interactive uh effort this afternoon to look back at at a an important inflection point in American history and to explore how that moment still resonates today. Uh so my goal this afternoon is is the same as the goal I
of? Tell us a little bit about the creative process that you go through. I mean, are there any examples you can give, or whether you have methodologies that you use at these different inflection points? Susan Bonds: Well, so just to echo what Chris is saying, I think when you watch a story and you see the knight save the village or get the girl, it's like, "Well, I wanna be that person. I wanna be the hero of the story." I mean, we all remember The Matrix when Neo got the package and he ripped it open and
basically don't let your head make this decision make let your heart make this decision and that was one of the inflection points of my my life let alone my business life I thought about it long and hard and I I decided you know I never really actually came into this to be the CEO I love the company I
But that seems to be one of the few things that does line up reasonably well with a downward inflection in birth rates in high-income countries in the late 2000s, in middle-income countries in the sort of mid 2010s and then in poorer countries as we go into the late
Our horizons shrank. But I believe that this is the moment. This is the inflection point where we need to recalibrate things. We need to rebalance our portfolio because we do not want to lose by winning at the wrong thing.
So he really wanted to get vaccinated. But that inflection point-- it sort of happened.
And so I never told and I never let them take the dignity of who I was. So there were inflection points, throughout my life is what you're describing, where when I had an opportunity to contribute to the conversation in a way that would not out me.
is inhabiting the character. Is it a different inflection or different dialogue altogether?
I was sworn in on Sunday. That's quite an inflection point.
What it does is that schematizes the change from epoch A values being predominant, them decreasing, epoch B values becoming more and more important. Around the point of inflection, that switching and moving to a time where epoch B values are predominant over epoch A values. Now, what's useful to me about this slide is, if you look at this-- and I realize a lot of things begin to make sense.
So in conclusion, just to say, we're at this point in the course of human and social evolution where the demands of survival converge another point of inflection back into the epoch, but it's one that we created all on our own.
I have a question. Where is the inflection point where you really felt that things were accelerating more than ? Yeah-- 2008 upwards. So-- What happened?
And it's a mixture of almost having not only a script, but also a score, too, because you have to hit certain inflections and things like that. So it's half improv, half have scripted.
Now you know everybody in entertainment. So if the first inflection point was Steven Spielberg giving you recognition and that giving you just the belief in yourself to do anything after that, a second inflection point is cut to Atlanta.
You talked about the inflection point between Pencils of Promise and MissionU.
That was the inflection point when it all came together for them.
Or a point of inflection, if the parameters are chosen.
"Moneyball" was the first inflection point within the industry.
What was really the inflection point?
And the inflection point was really after World War II in the 1950s.
So a downward inflection is when your pitch cascades downward at the ends of your phrases and sentences.
The upward inflection can be as bad as this Valley Girl type thing, where I have a question word at the end of my sentence.
So the downward inflection when speaking in English is the traditional, or rather unmarked, dialect of English, where we start high and we end low.
The upward inflection is the function of a question, and it starts low and ends high.
The upward inflection does the exact opposite--
This is an inflection point for the electric car, and it is for a couple reasons.
And not with that inflection but just, are you the Amy Tan?
There's an inflection point where then you will understand on a BD level, OK, now we can start getting to yes.
wait for an inflection at this pace and intensity most people are up higher higher than
from my inflection, my face, my hand you're understanding that a Volkswagen is not a very big car or a very big expenditure or something like that, it's just a Volkswagen. But what
And then there's an inflection point.
And he was at a really important inflection point in his career, and many people were writing what they'd learned from him.
So you get the real inflection, you get the real flavor of what it means to really-- JORGE R. GUITERREZ: Oh, absolutely.
And it's typically the inflection point where an individual content creator says, you know what?
I was sworn in on Sunday. So all my life-- when you say "inflection points," I have like plenty of anecdotes.
I'm pretty excited about. But in this area of inflection, growth rates are the highest. Acceleration is changing to deceleration.
going to solve. Just to return, just to mention, again, where we are, this is such a time of change. We're just past the point of inflection. A lot is under our control, and a lot we can still do.
So in conclusion, just to say, we're at this point in the course of human and social evolution where the demands of survival converge being at different points in the inflection curve that you're showing.
And because we are at this incredible inflection moment at the beginning of this revolution that's going to change our lives--
And this was kind of an inflection point for him.
The S ending here is simply an inflectional ending-- a generative ending.
There's a very noticeable inflection point, and that, we think, has to do with this initial paper coming
I think there have been several inflection points.
You can see really big inflection points around the invention of the plough and the advent of chemical fertilizer.
So I won't go into the inflection points that I talk about in the book, but I just want to note for your interest that among the first people who
Cancer has been something that has inflected Justice Ginsburg's life.
So let me just demonstrate the down inflection starts high.