To me, context is about pattern recognition.

It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

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Innovation is something which by its nature cannot be forecast.

If you could forecast it, it wouldn't be innovation.

We think that people have leapfrogged what is reasonable into excessive worry.

We took some major fiscal steps to expand the economy in 2009.

We followed up with several more, but those ended prematurely.

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