"September can be a confrontational zero-sum moment with potentially disastrous consequences or a transformative breakthrough, if it is done right," argues Gidi Grinstein, the president of the Reut Institute, one of Israel's top strategy groups.
The presidencies of James Earl Jones in "The Man," Morgan Freeman in "Deep Impact," Chris Rock in "Head of State" and Dennis Haysbert in "24" helped us imagine Mr. Obama's transformative breakthrough before it occurred.
Children in villages of Kenya, Haiti, who could not afford a television, or somewhere around some radio, hoping that there'd be this great redemptive, transformative breakthrough.
One of the most transformative scientific breakthroughs in this decade has been the discovery that transient overexpression of a few transcription factors can reprogram differentiated cells into pluripotent populations, commonly referred to as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.
Economists Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and Robert Gordon of Northwestern University argue that the United States economic growth has been and will be retarded into the future because of the lack of transformative technological breakthroughs comparable to other industrial eras.
The discovery of CRISPR, by all accounts a transformative scientific and technological breakthrough, is many things to many people, but for Mammoth Biosciences, it's all about the search functionality.
Which major breakthroughs in technology have had a transformative effect on the lives of the world's poorest?
"Our hope is that this gift will be transformative and lead to new medical technology and breakthroughs that improve health care for children around the world," said Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States.
When people talk of transformative research, Frodeman says, they also usually mean breakthroughs with cultural, social, or economic rather than purely scientific impact.
