It is also a reasonable corollary of this hypothesis that golden ages of freedom and prosperity occur when events and technological innovations right the balance of power between the state and individuals.
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With a whimsically eclectic technique (including musical sequences and special effects), she sets in motion a flashy yet complex superstructure of personal life that rests on a solid, implicit base of quasi-divine technological power and sociopolitical openness and energy.
Constantly seeing powerful locomotives and precise signalling mechanisms, listening to the roar from the engines of heavy freight trains, the switchman felt that his reason had triumphed, as if he, too, were to blame for all this universal technological power and its charm.
Schwab emphasized a further erosion of unilateral power and formal structures, a technological revolution with dramatic redefinition of employment opportunities, and the broad based acceleration of the complexity of global challenges.
While The Times's Will Hodgkinson said the opening night "demonstrated that it is imagination and the power of art, combined with ruthless technological efficiency, that is at the heart of Kraftwerk's magic".
It was leading the rest of the world into the future with the demonstrative power of democracy and free markets, new technological breakthroughs in automation, computers, communications, energy, medicine, space travel, to name a few.
This means technological advances in areas such as structural and functional materials, power conversion, and reliability.
As the world follows the ongoing crisis in Japan and new technological developments in renewable energy, the future of nuclear power is unclear.
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Yes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that economically punish coal power plants are somewhat responsible for the shift to natural gas power, but so too are technological advances and new natural gas discoveries that have dramatically reduced the price of natural gas.
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More and more of that technological liberation is happening, thanks to the growing power of microchips.
Each stage of converting and transmitting power results in a loss of efficiency, but with technological improvements these losses are being reduced.
But a solar storm has the potential to disrupt the shielding effect, and severe space weather can have harmful effects on a wide array of technological systems, including satellite operations, communications, navigation and electric power grids.
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It remains a reasonable idea for most rich countries to keep some nuclear power in their portfolio, not least because by maintaining economic and technological stakes in nuclear they will have more standing to insist on high standards for safety and non-proliferation being applied throughout the world.
The technological advance of thin and light flexible display has encouraged the development of flexible batteries with a high power density and thermal stability.
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For Epic Founder Tim Sweeney, the technological underpinnings of the Unreal Engine have the power to double the productivity of a developer and halve production times.
Indeed, productivity-driven deflation, in which costs and prices are pushed lower by technological advances or by deregulation, is beneficial, because lower prices lift real incomes and hence spending power.
In recent years, this dynamic has become especially problematic as technological advances have accelerated market penetration of customer-sited solar photovoltaics, combined heat and power and other genres of distributed generation.
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India wanted status, respect for its technological prowess, security on the cheap and the spin-off benefits, it hoped, of cheap nuclear power.
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