Some even threatened to ignore DuPont's patent, raising visions of a scientific underground passing knockoff OncoMouse mice from lab to lab.
This newsbyte, currently making the rounds, appears here and elsewhere out of context from a much longer pitch for Google Glass, a high-tech monocle that is Google's eyebrow-raising vision for the next generation of wearable computing.
Ryan's reponse raised the vision of a last-minute miracle, adding statistical respectability to a proud day in the history of a club which played its first match in 1887 but which entered the Football League only eight years ago.
But it does also raise the vision of a teacher rushing to one side of the room to boot someone off Facebook, while five children on the other side of the room merrily fire up Clash of Clans... 1.32pm GMT Will this be an Android tablets Christmas for kids?
After going public in 1993 to raise $27 million, Vision.
It is to understand the convergence of interests, seize the historic moment, elect a Democratic Congress and lift our sights, raise our vision, elevate our aspirations and escalate our actions -- beginning now, through 2014, through 2015 and through 2016.
Peace with India would be another great boost, raising a heady vision of economic co-operation between the close cousins.But what if neither happens?
Also in the news recently, Mantis Vision raising $12.5 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung and others for its mobile 3D capture engine that's designed to work on handheld devices.
"They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!" he tweeted in August, raising the unwelcome vision of some bitter Roger Hargreaves character brought monstrously to life.
In his address to the Boao Forum for Asia in March, he proposed the formation of "networks of exchanges and cooperation among think-tanks," aimed at raising their global vision and influence.
The surge raises tantalizing visions of new cyber-empires operating locally but competing globally -- and, some people say, troubling prospects of new economic schisms in a society that was once proudly egalitarian.
