The stakes are simply too high.

BERKELEY Imagine two central banks.

Consider the enormous opportunity cost of huge military budgets.

To imagine that we're not going to use these technologies when they become available, is as much a denial of who we are as to imagine that we'll use these technologies and not fret and worry about it a great deal.

If we imagine this to be a hyper intelligent coral, we can single out an individual and ask him a reasonable question.

Over here, let's imagine we've got Wikipedia, Linux, and beyond open source.

Nevertheless, it is not hard to imagine scenarios in which the dollar collapses.

Fortunately, the truth is more prosaic.

It is difficult to imagine a more symbolic blow to Ataturk s vision.

So the point here is that not all boys exist within these rigid boundaries of what we think of as boys and girls, and not all girls exist within those rigid boundaries of what we think of as girls.

We can therefore imagine what the impact of a drier climate on agriculture is likely to be.

It is impossible to imagine her surviving a primary campaign.

They nervously agreed. I nervously started, and, of course, things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

A less propitious start for a fledgling nation could scarcely be imagined.

A traditional party leader says to his followers, You can trust me.

But we should not be complacent merely because we cannot imagine the alternatives.

It is hard to imagine that such a nuclear attack would have remained merely tactical.

But it is hard to imagine what measures could actually lead Fernández to reconsider.

It is difficult to imagine a nation that is confined to one state or a state that contains one nation.

After all, can anyone imagine French sailors eating spotted dick or any other culinary peculiarity of the Royal Navy?

It is impossible to imagine a continuous gale of creative destruction taking place except in a context of boom and bust.

Then we might finally see that chicken from the factory farm really isn t so cheap after all.

We can remember the past, and we can think about the future, and we can imagine what it's like to be some other person in some other place.

This means imagining a better balance between markets and their supporting institutions at the global level .

It is difficult to imagine them standing with Musharraf should civil conflict erupt.

There is no quick fix in disentangling the Korean knot. Only persistence and commitment will do.

Moreover, even in such a bleak world, it is difficult to imagine the market breaking down completely or for long.

Now we are discovering that the consequences may be far more deadly than we ever imagined.

Now, when we do brain imaging, we find that all three of these networks are actually much more efficient in people that play action games.

To see why, imagine a country that introduced computers and communications at a rapid rate in a world in which America did not exist.

No EU government will want to invite into the club an administration that contains Romania's far uglier version of Le Pen and Haider.

All these disasters and many others still to be imagined are possible, and many of them are unacceptable.

And, if the bets don t pay off, the cost to the American taxpayer will be even larger.

It is hard to imagine that a free and fair election can take place against the backdrop of such intense and systemic violence.

Perhaps the end will come in a different way, but it is difficult to imagine the age of US exceptionalism lasting indefinitely.

It is certainly possible to imagine, as the French Communist deputy does, a woman in a burqa harboring an extremist or terrorist agenda.

So in the same way that we actually see the effects of video games on people's behavior, we can use brain imaging and look at the impact of video games on the brain, and we do find many changes, but the main changes are actually to the brain networks that control attention.

It is hard to imagine India with a better prime minister. Singh is one of the best economists in the world.

It is hard to imagine that higher interest rates and reduced credit availability will not lead to distress for Europe s overall economy.

It would be a delusion to imagine that the eurozone need only follow its current path to ensure the single currency s future.

By contrast, imagine Turkey, a more advanced member state of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, allowing free expression of Kurdish language and culture.

We may not be able to imagine what the future holds, but we know that the Networked Society will shape its possibilities.

Let us imagine that they could then work hand in hand to host the biggest sporting event in the world.

But imagine a world where textbooks are adapted to many learning styles and translated into myriad languages.

But this scientific hierarchy is false and misleading we now know that biology contains more mathematics than we ever imagined.