If your wife needs assurance, show her these final communications.
The book begins with the ship, Impetus, taking on provisions and exchanging final communications with the rest of the world at a whaling station in Greenland and progresses painfully north until the Impetus is stuck in pack ice, where it remains.
In particular, it is crucial to be able to define the outcome of a climate conference in the face of often ambiguous final communications in order to make the prediction market robust and to find benchmarks to compare prediction market performance against.
It was the recording of the passengers on the plane -- leaving voicemails that were both calm and clearly meant as last words for the families of what passengers now knew would be their final communications home, "Don't worry, I'm fine" one mom recorded on her family's home answering machine.
Although also being the final nail in the communications category as well, Steve Jobs most decisive battle for the digital apocalypse was in obliterating the art and entertainment industries.
"The last mile" is an industry term used to denote the final leg of a communications, shipping or logistics network, the part that physically reaches the front door of an intended recipient.
Furthermore, some elements did not look reliable in the EXERT trial and not all of the data collected was used in the final analysis (Julia Critchley and Tony Isaacs, personal communications).
FiOS is the first company to use fiber optics for "the last mile," as the final stretch of connectivity between communications provider and customer is called (though it's almost never an actual mile).
