Percolate

Science and technology mutually reinforce each other, and both percolate through the social fabric.

Both the first two revolutions required about 100 years for their full effects to percolate through the economy.

160 160 160 160 160 160 160 160 Both the first two revolutions required about 100 years for their full effects to percolate through the economy.

And I only stumbled on this because I was living in Malé, in Maldives for long enough for it to percolate into my brain that something rather special was going on.

While these measures to some extent helped streamline procurement operations at United Nations Headquarters, they are, however, still to percolate down to other major duty stations, including field offices, and to the collective membership of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG).

This is a visualization of the political spectrum, an attempt for me to try and understand how it works and how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture, into families, into individuals, into their beliefs and back around again in a cycle.

First, the advent of global communications meant that ideas invented or found or applied in one part of the world could be quickly made known to and adapted in other parts of the world, rather than waiting decades or centuries to percolate across the oceans.