And absent some major technological breakthrough, it's unlikely to do so in the future.
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It sparkles from a world-beating technological breakthrough, then shatters when its market hits a bump.
This week, Apple brings us another great technological breakthrough with the launch of the third generation iPad.
Can't you pinpoint almost everything that happened back to some technological breakthrough?
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Photoshop CS, released in 2003, was the kind of technological breakthrough that causes artists to go overboard and then pull back, Coyne said.
This is why, barring a major technological breakthrough, the economics of solar energy may someday look much like the economics of fossil fuels.
Today, we are a long way from the era when a single person working with an assistant or two can make a revolutionary technological breakthrough.
But now what we need is that next technological breakthrough.
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Of course, Gates used the keynote to announce plans of a new technological breakthrough - a font enhancement called ClearType that makes text on an LCD look like text on paper to improve e-books.
But as with any new technological breakthrough, there will be those looking to get around it, and as we can see from people taping Pokewalkers to spinning record players, there will always be the lazy who will go to great lengths to stay that way.
Through breakthrough technological innovation, they extend the productivity frontier of companies and society.
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