Private and business customers are increasingly using electronic media to communicate.
Whereas analog measurement--in the form of slide rules, micrometers and electronic meters--increasingly hit a wall because of the limitation of human beings to capture the result, digital could just keep on getting more and more accurate.
Advertising and electronic commerce are also becoming increasingly important to the national players.
Riskier products could be bundled and sold more efficiently because of new electronic payment systems, and in combinations reaching a greater range of buyers, increasingly far from the original loan.
American garment makers increasingly offer electronic ordering, automated distribution centres and inventory-management systems tied into those of their customers.
They will increasingly control their own scheduling, with personal video recorders and an electronic programme guide, which viewers can instruct to record all the week's comedy, say, or gardening shows.
Because electronic equipment is increasingly sophisticated, standard meters--and the people who read them--are becoming obsolete.
Markets are increasingly going electronic, minimizing the need for physical trading floors and, in some cases, actual human traders.
In an era of electronic anonymity, comments made on professional and amateur posts alike are increasingly cruel and personal.
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Since it is exports that have fuelled the consumption boom, and since electronic goods have been a crucial component of exports, the economy looks increasingly vulnerable.
One key law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), is 25 years-old and increasingly ineffective when it comes to protecting our core values that are enshrined in our foundation laws, like the 4th Amendment, from the onslaught of temptations flowing from technology now widely available.
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Electronic stockmarkets are now the norm in the rest of the world, and are increasingly important in America.
The reason is that, in the electronic world, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the technology of a website and the way it does business.
Cyber-warfare has increasingly been waged against the computers that control the grid and other vital parts of our economy's electronic underbelly.
The American Institute of Architects has found that renovation projects are increasingly spanning nontraditional features like computer stations or recharging areas for electronic devices, built-in recycling centers and wine storage areas as well.
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