But once again technology came to the rescue, with hydraulic fracturing and breakthroughs in oil drilling.
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So in healthcare, ultimately big data can improve clinical outcomes and breakthroughs while driving down costs.
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Small companies dedicated to craftsmanship, like Mitaka Kohki, often provide the concepts and breakthroughs that major corporations need.
Companies large and small are trying to coax staff into taking more chances in hopes that they'll generate ideas and breakthroughs that lead to new business.
Nationwide, the rebirth of nuclear power will keep pushing forward, and breakthroughs in solar cells will bring the environmentalists' dream of solar panels on every roof a bit closer to reality.
We look forward to seeing the solutions and breakthroughs that result from the prizes and challenges offered by NYC iZone, the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, and education innovators across the Nation.
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The reason for the shortfall: A decline in supply occasioned by the long-term fall in the car accident death rate has coincided with a growth in demand occasioned by aging demographics and breakthroughs in medicine.
Things like genetically engineered seeds and live vaccines have been hailed as scientific and industrial breakthroughs, and can often be reproduced easily and cheaply.
We invented amazing scientific technologies and medical breakthroughs because we invested in basic research and science.
Katz also seemed tie himself in a knot with the juxtaposition of two points that he himself made: first, he emphasized that the vast majority of innovative ideas and technological breakthroughs are coming out of American cities and major metropolitan areas probably more than 85%, he said.
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Products like genetically engineered seeds and live vaccines have been hailed as scientific and industrial breakthroughs, but they often can be reproduced easily and cheaply.
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Connectional intelligence (CxQ) is the ability to make sense and enable breakthroughs by connecting ideas, people, information, and resources, and to sift through various sources of information and put pieces of a puzzling problem together in new ways.
"New discoveries and medical breakthroughs are growing our collective knowledge of medicine at an unprecedented pace, and tomorrow's doctors will have to embrace new tools and technology to complement their own knowledge and experience in the field, " said James Stoller, M.
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In an environment of freedom, more people mean more knowledge and, thus, more breakthroughs and inventions.
They are no more clairvoyant about market trends and scientific breakthroughs than anyone else.
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Many of the scientific and technological breakthroughs are made by poor-country scientists working in rich-country laboratories.
Over the last two decades, engineering and chemical breakthroughs have produced significant energy gains in ethanol production.
We have led the world in scientific research and technological breakthroughs that have transformed millions of lives.
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We have the science and the technology to relieve pain, and impressive breakthroughs are coming that will do even more.
And the breakthroughs are in large part down to extremely powerful computer processors now at the disposal of genetic researchers.
We can make crystals of exceptional purity to produce super computers, creating jobs, technologies, and medical breakthroughs beyond anything we ever dreamed possible.
Even the advertisements and technology breakthroughs play a role, creating expectations of how things might be that can never match our mortal realities.
The impact of increasing atmospheric carbon is widely recognized, but diminution of human emissions of carbon will either require a difficult decrease in our use of fossil fuels or significant scientific and technological breakthroughs.
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When we waste billions of dollars, in part because our technology is out of date, that's billions of dollars we're not investing in better schools for our children, in tax relief for our small businesses, in creating jobs and funding research to spur the scientific breakthroughs and economic growth of this new century.
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But we also know that in this country, that system, our free enterprise system, works when everybody has got a shot, when everybody is participating, when everybody has got a chance to get a good education and learn new skills, when we support research into medical breakthroughs and new technologies that will create new businesses.
The White House report notes that the Recovery Act is accelerating solar energy innovation by providing funding for greater solar energy deployment, manufacturing and scale-up, and catalyzing needed technological breakthroughs to create novel and more efficient technologies.
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How many entrepreneurs will invest in new food and energy sources when a currency is collapsing, investors are fleeing to speculation, and green wackos are blocking breakthroughs in nanotech and genetically modified food?
How many entrepreneurs will invest in new food and energy sources when a currency is collapsing, investors are fleeing to speculation, capital gains taxes are set to go up and green zealots are blocking breakthroughs in nanotech and genetically modified food?
The company spends heavily on research and development, and it has produced breakthroughs in semiconductor, screen and computer-memory technology.
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"Before, the whole thing depended on having breakthroughs, and if you didn't have breakthroughs it was downside risk, " Witty says.
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