Sutherland wanted to create a system where ideas didn't just percolate down but could percolate up from the bottom and be adjusted in real time.

Walk around for four months with three wishes, and all the ideas will start to percolate up.

Both the first two revolutions required about 100 years for their full effects to percolate through the economy.

160 160 160 160 160 160 160 160 Both the first two revolutions required about 100 years for their full effects to percolate through the economy.

And I only stumbled on this because I was living in Malé, in Maldives for long enough for it to percolate into my brain that something rather special was going on.

The extra money is expected to percolate through the economy, quickening activity. The European Central Bank has just started a 1.1 trillion ( 1.17 trillion) bond purchase program to bypass the German veto on fiscal expansion.

New tools provide new means of investigation, enabling researchers to speed up computation, for example, and hence increase the production of new knowledge. Science and technology mutually reinforce each other, and both percolate through the social fabric.

While these measures to some extent helped streamline procurement operations at United Nations Headquarters, they are, however, still to percolate down to other major duty stations, including field offices, and to the collective membership of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG).

This is a visualization of the political spectrum, an attempt for me to try and understand how it works and how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture, into families, into individuals, into their beliefs and back around again in a cycle.

On one hand, top down factors regulatory change, unusual pricing, and what Nouriel Roubini has cleverly termed the liquidity paradox are at work. Then there are disruptive influences that percolate up from below changing customer preferences and, even more important, outside visionaries seeking to transform and modernize the industry.