But when it comes to real world decisions, for instance, consulting with corporate polluters or not, doesn't one really have to come down on one side or the other?
Under commercial television's plan to make up for the decline of commercials, Ken Barlow in Coronation Street might, for instance, consult his Rolex, in lingering close-up, to check that he has time to get to the Rover's Return for a pint of Boddington's, rather than the fictional Newton & Ridley bitter that the characters are required to drink now.
For instance, consulting firm Taia Global said the results of a linguistic analysis of communications from the suspected hackers suggest they were more likely from Russia than North Korea.
For instance, patients consulting homeopaths were more often older and more educated women with less lifestyle risk factors than those consulting in conventional primary care.
Regulators in Singapore, for instance, habitually consult local businesspeople to see how they can improve co-operation.
Patients with a history of ulcers or heart disease, for instance, did consult their doctors before taking the drug, a finding that Dr. Berlin said suggested that more specific warnings were not necessary.
The technology could also allow a guest at a Super Bowl party, for instance, to consult several different camera angles on a particular play, without affecting what the other guests see on the TV screen.
Delivering augmented reality features, enabling a skilled senior technician, for instance, to consult on a challenging problem an equipment repair technician may encounter in the field.
This kind of exercise is not entirely new: there have been reviews of national science systems in the past, for instance through consulting companies or the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DEconomic Co-operation
For instance, the consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, with more than 13,000 employees in the Washington area alone and whose clients include the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services, acquires the bulk of its $4.5 billion in annual revenue from government contracts.
