It dramatised a none-too-implausible future in which every human encounter is ranked by participants out of five on their phone, and where your own personal ranking determines such things as which cars or apartments you can rent.
Among other things, it seems implausible that our future-directed conduct should get a free moral pass whenever it affects the timing and manner of conception.
But I'd define it as a situation in which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future.
There's a simple reason for Mr. Dorsey to consider some other path: Implausible expectations are a setup for a bleak future.
Yet only yesterday, a key coal industry figure again used this "implausible" talking point in a defence of the future of his industry.
They began with the assumption that a worldwide transition from fossil fuels to renewables is all but inevitable a future that is not guaranteed, but hardly implausible either, despite the current domination of oil and gas.
If this is unlikely or implausible, then the decision should be deferred for a future funding round, typically a year later.
If our past is any indication, our future may lie in the conceptual and slightly implausible figments of our science fiction-based imaginations.
While it is implausible to blind the caregivers or subjects to acupuncture treatment, future trials might include a sham acupuncture group or sham acupuncture period to rule out this confounding factor.
This is likely not implausible as several clinical trials in other diseases have demonstrated a promising future for miRNA-based therapeutics such as the liposome-based human miR-34 mimic (MRX-34) miRNA-based drug against hepatocellular carcinoma (NCT01829971).
