I read Neil Gaiman's lecture to the Reading Agency in which he talks about the importance of imagined things". The bookshop went viral this year after tweeting that they'd only earned £12.34 that day.
To illustrate the importance of macrostructures, imagine two learning experiments.
In her paper, Zhang argues that Wu's experiment illustrates the importance of re-imagining our relationships with the non-human world, including flies, in order to create a modern, sustainable city.
Our long-term goal is that other organizations will recognize the need and importance of re-imagining reporting and will replicate the tool within their own efforts, regardless of the development sector in which they work.
In case we haven't convinced you of the importance of preparation, imagine the following scenario: Your examiners ask you a critical question that is foundational for your field, and you don't know the answer.
Dr Simon Lewis, the distinguished rainforest scientist, tells me: "To highlight the importance of rainforests, imagine if they were lost quickly.
Alan Sidelle's discussion of the metaphysical contingency of the laws of nature explicitly refers to the "importance of traditional imagining, conceiving, and thought experiment to modal inquiry" (p. 310), and can be read as a challenge to any claim that thought experiments would reveal anything more than a "necessity based in analyticity" (p. 329).
To understand the importance of discount rates, imagine that climate change damages in 2100 totaled $1 trillion.
To understand the importance of this product, imagine an ATM (Automated Teller Machine) network with 10 million outlets all across the world where you can withdraw money from any one of those networked ATM machines.
Further, it tested the importance of instructions to imagine the positive training materials.
Of course, there are times when sporting success can truly symbolise something of political importance (and imagine how Sunday's Wimbledon final would have been freighted with such tensions had it occurred 14 years ago, when the RAF were bombing Djokovic's home town of Belgrade).
