Sentence examples for social utilities from inspiring English sources

"We want to create lightweight social utilities that affect the way you interact with the physical world".

When these social utilities were left holding the bulk of the sub-prime mess, they were, of course, nationalised.

The clue is in the name: the primary aim of a public service is to provide a service to the public – to protect crucial social utilities from the instabilities of capitalism and to avoid negative social impacts.

But the deeper takeaway that relates to you and me is this: Beyonce and Rihanna represent two ways to use social media, a decision that most of us will have to make about the face we put forward to the world, via the Web, particularly as Facebook and Twitter continue to race toward an endgame of being universal social utilities, YellowPages for everyone who uses the Web.

But you can easily see this concept transferred to any number of social utilities.

Developers could build games and social utilities, or offer a "Profile Box" app that let you spruce up your personal presence on Facebook.

This transaction wasn't merely socially useless, it had negative social utility.

"Our social utility is to cover the news," he said.

" 'Social utility' is, quite deliberately, not part of the equation of need.

In short neither the economic benefits nor the social utility are clear.

If hedge-fund managers are playing a zero-sum game, what is their social utility?