He and others suggest that we should be thinking more broadly than simply to impose human thought processes and experiences on any beings we encounter from another world.
In the most pervasive medium, television – the one that we encounter from cradle to grave, brought directly into our homes – the imbalance between the numbers of men and women on screen remains severe, as the Lords committee on women in news broadcasting has been hearing this week.
The number one turns out have a remarkable ubiquity – it is by far the most common first digit of every number in virtually every document we encounter, from the Domesday Book to the front pages of newspapers, to electricity bills or street addresses.
With all the stress we encounter from economic conditions, it is very tempting to delegate control of your money to a financial professional without taking the proper steps to manage and oversee that professional.
"The usual factors we encounter from consumers are resistance to any increase in price, and the £10 to £20 premium for faster services can deter many, particularly if paying under £10 for their broadband service now," he said.
The idea of sending multiple messages to consumers as they walk down the street is a request we've encountered from more than a few brands.
One of the most recent objections we encountered was from a networking team who felt they lost visibility into where the network packets were going.
See e.g. Fulmer (1980, 155), Horwich (1987, 1) ("If the necessary technology [for time travel] will ever become available, why haven't we encountered visitors from the future?") and Hawking (1992, 610); cf. also Reinganum (1986).
