The application of science has a truly enormous impact on the quality of human life and indeed human civilization. (sciencemag.org)
Those scenarios typically demonstrate a lack of specificity about the costs and potentially enormous impacts of such technologies, which makes their ready and convenient acceptance of a currently hypothetical capability disturbing. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
The media, particularly television, have enormous impact in the lives of people and societies over a relatively short time. (religion-online.org)