Word: conforming
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...designer IDEO puts it. The tangled cables that snake through every office, for instance, should disappear, replaced by wireless systems that zap voice, data and video through the air. Smart materials could make any surface or gadget feel like wood one day and metal the next. Intelligent chairs might conform perfectly to your posture, giving you a much needed back rub in the process. Embedded systems and biometric, body-sensing technology will enable every piece of hardware, from cell phones and PDAs to PCs, to know exactly who you are and where, as well as to communicate with every other...
...called them and I asked, 'Would you please conform to the licensing rules?'" he said...
...Political analysts see it that way, because the way the investigation was conducted by the conservative-controlled legal system raised a lot of questions. It certainly didn't conform to the way these things have been handled in the past in Iran, and close observers of the political process view it as a politicized issue between the two factions. For ordinary Iranians, though, even those following the domestic power struggle, the trial is less of an issue...
Even though most boys and men never approach the compulsion of Davis or Michael (both eventually conquered it), they undoubtedly face more pressure now than in the past to conform to an impossible ideal. Ripped male bodies are used today to advertise everything that shapely female bodies advertise: not just fitness products but also dessert liqueurs, microwave ovens and luxury hotels. The authors of The Adonis Complex want guys to rebel against those images, or at least see them for what they are: a goal unattainable without drug...
Meanwhile, ironists and fatalists draw austere satisfaction from the fire-or-ice scenario, which reflects the quintessential human perception that nobody gets out of life alive. And that's just what makes me suspicious of it. The great lesson of scientific cosmology is that the universe does not usually conform to our time-honored ways of thinking--that to understand it, we need to think in new ways. Integral to modern cosmology are mind-bending 20th century concepts like Einstein's curved space, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the realization that exotic subatomic particles sail through our bodies...