The Pope's first tweet is a watershed moment for social media — as the old top-down ways of communicating, that are still all too often favoured by establishment institutions such as the Catholic Church, are shown again and again to be unworkable in a hyper connected age.
In spite of this, many political leaders continue to call for deployment of the most complicated weapon system ever designed -- a system, as shown by test failure after test failure, to be unworkable.
"At this point," the researchers wrote, "the guards' regime was seen by all to be unworkable and at an end".
It has turned out to be unworkable.
Both parties consider the other's proposal to be unworkable.
One immediate measure to close the gap proposed by the transit workers' union seems to be unworkable.
In the hands of any but the subtlest writer, this is so obvious a metaphor as to be unworkable.
For example, a flagship savings product, Individual Savings Accounts, turned out to be unworkable in the form it was launched.
A ban on firecrackers, or restrictions on car ownership, is thought to be unworkable.
And I find that to be unworkable in terms of democracy.
