By Michael Specter CRISPR's unprecedented ability to edit genetic code will make possible a new generation of medical treatments.
But no matter which side you're on, both cases have underscored the unprecedented ability of individuals armed with digital technology to upset the status quo.
Comcast will have unprecedented market power over consumers and an unprecedented ability to exert its influence over any channels or businesses that want to reach Comcast's customers".
ODesk, an American firm that links employers with freelances over the internet, boasts that its software gives buyers an "unprecedented ability" to monitor the people they hire.
In another section of this book Mr. Kagan writes that the United States "enjoys a unique and unprecedented ability to gain international acceptance of its power".
I'm talking about our unprecedented ability to tote around and dwell in a snugly tailored reality of our own creation, a monochromatic gallery of our own curation.
We stand on the verge of an unprecedented ability to liberate global trade for the benefit of our whole planet with technological advances, such as the internet and e-commerce, dissolving the barriers of time and distance.
Norman Solomon, executive director, Institute for Public Accuracy, @NormanSolomon @accuracy, Washington, DC, US Our ability to connect through the internet, through Skype and other links, means we have an unprecedented ability to reach out to help journalists everywhere.
More ominous in those long ago, three network days was its unprecedented ability to concentrate the nation's attention, to create or destroy figures of national stature, stars or demagogues, overnight.
As his career developed, he discovered the talent that was both his greatest strength and his eventual undoing: an almost unprecedented ability to absorb punishment, to take a punch.
More generally, the lawsuit underscores unresolved copyright-infringement issues raised by the advent and growing popularity of the Internet, which provides an unprecedented ability to trade and copy data.
