It is a natural aim for us to have a mature technology ten years from now.

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Rocketry is a mature technology, and NASA has always relied on using contractors to build its rockets and spacecraft.

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It may, as Marshall suggested, take a generation to see how the Internet reshapes society and human behaviour once it becomes a mature technology.

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Brewing is a mature technology, to say the least.

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With the technology achieving a mature state and now growing in mobile devices, broader uses for NFC are now emerging that vastly simplify use of the connectivity options already pervasive in these devices.

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While Apple tends to deliver a better mousetrap, it also tends to wait until the technology and infrastructure mature.

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Naysayers argue that enterprise technology, still the bulk of overall tech spending, is a mature industry with a greater focus on cost savings than dramatic disruption.

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Renee Klosterman, acting multimedia services manager at Washington's DIS, said her state's commitment to video technology is proven by a special Interactive Technologies Division within DIS, a mature videoconferencing system and a satellite TV studio that has all the cameras, production equipment and personnel needed to produce broadcast-quality video.

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Driven by the counter-intuitive economics of the Internet and computing technology, the spread of Internet Everywhere is deconstructing the supply chains in a wide range of once-mature industries, including broadcasting, telecommunications, mass media, computing and consumer electronics, to name just a few.

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