Christoph Adami Finding life we can't imagine

Michael Hansmeyer Building unimaginable shapes

And he said, This genetic resource, and I'll never forget the words stands between us and catastrophic starvation on a scale we cannot imagine.

I am continually amazed by the way in which the subject of race can take itself in many places that we don't imagine it should be.

The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone, cannot be imagined. They certainly cannot be described.

The Security Council represents what the World War II Allies believed the post war world would look like and how it should be run.

A defender of suppression of Nazi ideas might argue that have already been tried, and have failed in the most horrendous manner imaginable to produce a better society.

The scale of events being simulated by computer simulations has far exceeded anything possible (or perhaps even imaginable) using traditional paper and pencil mathematical modeling.

In addition, millions of people are suffering unimaginable physical and psychological trauma that will take a long time to heal.

In the modern day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Strong demand growth in Japan and Europe that produces a higher level of American exports would be the most powerful pro trade liberalization force imaginable.

Of course, Japan did occupy China, committed unimaginable savagery, and has since paid no reparations or apologized in a convincing way.

Educational specialists fill every conceivable logistical and administrative gap, run sports and arts programs, guarantee diversity, and oversee technology transfer to the private sector.

Otherwise, the same young people will swell the ranks of the frustrated and unemployed, with unimaginable consequences in terms of social unrest and the risk of organized violence.

So it may be that the neural mechanisms for representing the space around us are also used for generating visual imagery so that we can recreate the spatial scene, at least, of the events that have happened to us when we want to imagine them.

Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.

Huge potential sources of scientific information yet to be gathered, much of our environmental stability and new kinds of pharmaceuticals and new products of unimaginable strength and value all thrown away.

After all, Hungary still holds the world record for hyperinflation, with the currency debased by 1027 in the 1940 s, paving the way for the imposition of Communist dictatorship.

And one was hoping that these two teams would get together, and this collusion of incredible creativity, under these incredible surroundings, and these incredibly stressed out engineers, would create some incredible solutions.

Europe s leaders recognized that distressed countries debts would become unmanageable unless their economies could grow, and that growth could not be achieved without assistance.

In particular, hot capital inflows make it difficult for financially open economies like Brazil to maintain a competitive currency, depriving them of what is in effect the most potent form of industrial policy imaginable.

An economic shift also needs to be carried out by Europe and Japan a shift from deflation to reflation.

Something is very wrong with this picture. Lebanon s government has a plan that requires no new schools or infrastructure, making it one of the most cost effective solutions to a refugee crisis imaginable.

But the arts are going to be more important to economies as we go forward, especially in industries we can't even imagine yet, just as they have been central to the iPod and the computer game industries, which few, if any of us come have foreseen 10 to 15 years ago.

Last year here at TED I asked you to give me your data, to put your data on the web, on the basis that if people put data onto the web government data, scientific data, community data, whatever it is it will be used by other people to do wonderful things, in ways that they never could have imagined.

We do know that some bacterial species that have earthly origin are capable of almost unimaginable extremes of temperature and other harsh changes in environment, including hard radiation strong enough and maintained long enough to crack the Pyrex vessels around the growing population of bacteria.

We had stories like The Seven League Boots the giant who had these boots, where, once you put them on, with every stride you could cover seven leagues, or 21 miles, a kind of travel completely unimaginable to people without that kind of energy at their disposal.

The point of that for me was to say in that space, in that moment that I really, more than anything, wanted to understand how images could work, how images did work, and how artists provided a space bigger than one that we could imagine in our day to day lives to work through these images.