As technology for everything from cars to personal computers has leapfrogged forward, glasses have stayed, well, glasses.
I disagree: you can learn how to get better, you can improve with practice and there are classes, workshops and coaches that can leapfrog you forward.
"Congress directed us to identify technologies that could be brought to market in an effort to leapfrog the United States forward and re-establish innovation leadership," he said.
The random gush of information and observation starts to coalesce into patterns; the leapfrogging backward and forward in time is gradually shaped into history, or at least becomes dried handprints in the warped concrete of memory.
Actually, there are two C.O.C.'s, as they are known, a main and a forward, which leapfrog each other, alternating command, as the marines move.
Or is there a technological way for education systems to "leapfrog" a few stages forward, such as the way that in some developing countries banking using mobile phones has jumped ahead without the stage of building a network of bank branches.
However, he made an impact at Euro 2012 and, while he was quiet here, he might leapfrog Hodgson's preferred forwards with a strong finish to the season.
The brigades would leapfrog each other as they moved forward.
It's also possible that, even if Apple's own applications take a big step forward, they can be leapfrogged over the course of the next year, between now and WWDC 2014.
With the private sector moving towards shared values and viable business models, and with governments committing to "leave no one behind," we actually have an opportunity to reap the demographic dividend and leapfrogging Kenya and other developing countries forward.
