Every market-facing ME is also expected to make a transformative leap from selling products and services to building an ecosystem.
Capturing light and converting it into ones and zeroes was a transformative leap, but so was the very idea of instantaneous photography pioneered by Mr. Land, who almost single-handedly brought us here.
But rather than one transformative leap, the deal will have several moving parts, together meant to show resolve to protect Italy and Spain, revise the economic governance of the euro zone and prevent further debt crises, officials involved in the talks say.
New centuries tend to announce themselves with transformative leaps.
As Robert J. Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University, pointed out in his recent book "The Rise and Fall of American Growth," past digital panaceas have not even tended to lead to economic progress, let alone to transformative leaps.
With Edraak, the Arab world has a chance to acquire capabilities and skills needed to realize transformative leaps.
How can they know that software will advance in transformative leaps but not, say, materials or nanotechnology?
Yet amid all this transformative change, one element has held stable: the art market's murky modus operandi.
Breaking out of those patterns demands a transformative, imaginative leap.
For all its costuming, for all its transformative powers, fashion cuts a straight path through to our souls.
It was all a leap into the unknown.
