The precise impact of Asia s IP expansion is impossible to predict. But its transformative potential is obvious.

Even if Gordon s pessimism is excessive, the timing of the next breakthrough in technology is impossible to predict. So called structural reforms may help, but the likely gains are small and uncertain.

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Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do it's hopeless to predict a single molecule yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately.

More broadly, the outcome of Italy s election will undoubtedly have a far reaching impact on a still fragile eurozone, though the nature of that impact remains impossible to predict unless Berlusconi returns to power, in which case the consequences will be all too clear.

While it is impossible to predict how Chinese politics will evolve, other countries experiences suggest that political change often occurs when per capita income reaches roughly 10,000. If such change does occur, Europe will have an opening to promote its core values even more effectively.

And, in fact, this idea can be used not just to predict epidemics of germs, but also to predict epidemics of all sorts of kinds.

Or will Egypt end up with something like a Kemalist democracy of the type that long prevailed in Turkey, with a civilian government but the military pulling the strings? All three alternatives are possible, though it is impossible to predict which one will come to pass.

Optimists counter that smart phones, Big Data, and expected advances in nanotechnology, robotics, and biosciences are harbingers of a new era of technology driven productivity improvements. It may be impossible to predict the next killer app, they argue, but it will always be developed.

In order to predict effectively, we need to use science.

It's always difficult to predict, especially about the future.

I can't predict what'll happen.

Tactics are short term solutions that often have significant unforeseen consequences, making it impossible to predict the kind of world they will generate. Strategy forms a different axis of action, accounting for the structure of global interdependence and thus how individual changes may affect the entire system.

So, what do we need to know in order to predict?

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SHANGHAI China s economic slowdown, from a nearly 10 annual output gain in 2007 to below 8 today, has fueled widespread speculation about the economy s growth potential. While it is impossible to predict China s future growth trajectory, understanding the economy s underlying trends is the best way to derive a meaningful estimate.

They are impossible to juggle.

It is next to impossible.

It's almost impossible to model this structure any other way, and it's almost impossible to do it on computers.

And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.

The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.

We can predict the accident and we can predict who, which cars, are in the best position to move out of the way to calculate the safest route for everyone.

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And you can predict the new trajectory.

They were almost impossible to swallow.

And it's almost impossible to perform.

To live without air is impossible.

It is impossible to do it.

That aim is impossible to attain.

It's impossible to go out now.

Physically impossible.

That's impossible.

It's impossible.

Absolutely impossible.

But I'd like to play for you the sound that we predict.

Science has the power to predict the future in many cases now.

I could not believe I had pledged allegiance to research, where our job you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena, for the explicit reason to control and predict.

It doesn't necessarily predict a win win outcome.

You ask me to do the impossible.

You'll find it impossible to live there.

It is absolutely impossible to do so.

It is impossible to live without water.

It's impossible to get there by noon.

It's impossible to get there by noon.

It was impossible to find an answer.