"She felt that her musical memory, her musical imagery, had become stronger, more tenacious, but also more flexible, so that she could hold the most complex music in her mind, then rearrange it and replay it mentally, in a way that would have been impossible before," Sacks writes.
"We will be able to do things that were impossible before," he says.
"The long term blue sky vision that if creators are discoverable through their work, independent of distribution, then they can own the entire process of distribution and eventually monetization in a way that was impossible before," says Walden.
These features too were thought to be impossible before the fly-by.
That makes it possible to use it in ways that were impossible before.
Eddie Murphy has spoken of his debt to Pryor and the younger performer's shock tactics would have been impossible before Pryor opened the commercial gates.
Acquiring the data for general research purposes would have been impossible before the end of the cold war because maps indicating the normal wiggles in Earth's gravitational field were used for targeting long-range missiles and were therefore classified.
People are using the service to print funky wrist watch bracelets for the iPod Nano or stunning and intricate jewelry that would have been impossible before 3-D printing.
Hamm was able to study for a degree while playing soccer at the University of North Carolina – something that would have been impossible before the legislation because athletic scholarships for women were virtually non-existent.
"Exhibitionism and voyeurism are basic human instincts," Dr. Hoffman said, adding that modern technology, from cell phones to laptop computers, has enabled people to do certain things in public that were impossible before.
