Dictate a text on your smartphone, search for a photo on Google or, in the not too distant future, ride in a self-driving car, and you will be using technology based partly on Dr. Hinton's ideas.
And, if you strained your ears, the occasional buzz of a distant moto ridden by a youth briefly taking a break from the local tradition of eating crisps in a bus stop.
According to pre-release audience awareness surveys, "Shadow Recruit" is on track to earn a lackluster $20 million over its opening four days in theaters, coming in a distant second to "Ride Along," an urban comedy starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.
Mine did". They may be two very different, in many ways totally contrasting, types of Glaswegian, but a bond first forged during far distant 1960s car rides from Ibrox remains uniquely powerful.
The notion of owning a weekend place within reasonable driving distance as well as a more distant haven a plane ride or two away suggests a world of glamour, serious money and canny investing.
If a tiny soil worm could do it, why not a hardy bacterium from a distant world, hitching a ride on a space rock or, dare we think it, sent by an advanced civilization?
How solar forecasting will be used as it matures is anyone's guess, but it could be handy for anyone who needs a more exacting snapshot of the weather — like Professor Coimbra himself, who keeps a careful eye on distant thunderheads as he rides his motorcycle along Interstate 15.
We are about to embark on a rough ride into the distant past.
During weekends, I used to take a train ride into a distant place, get off the train, and wander into villages, going into a Buddhist temple, staying the night there, chatting with people.
When a witch acquires a hyena mount, he rides it to distant lands in order to bewitch victims and return safely home before morning.
