One scenario where it envisages its API being a benefit to others but also without causing irritation to phone number owners is for call centres to identify who is calling before starting a call.
He also said it envisages advertising potential for monetising its keyboard software — assuming it achieves enough traction of course — thanks to the additional screen space being freed up.
It envisages Syria providing a full inventory of its chemical weapons in one week, all production equipment being destroyed by November, and all weapons being removed from Syria or destroyed by mid-2014.
The best thing about the pact is not its let-out clauses, but the fact that the fines it envisages are not automatic: they require majority approval among euro members, and they are not paid for at least two years.
(Its I.P.O. prospectus is up front about the fact that it envisages no "specific uses" for the sixteen billion dollars it just raised, most of which it will park in U.S. treasuries, like an aging retiree).
It envisages a centralised state.
It envisages a modern network across east Africa by 2050.
It envisages freezing spending in real terms for the three fiscal years starting in 2011-12.
It envisages the removal from council control of failing services and a transfer to children's trusts.
The controversial part, though, is the role it envisages for a government on the world stage.
It envisages a licensing regime allowing the US government to collect tax on bets.
