Nice to know that as technology improves, so does customer service.
As technology improves, it is likely that companies will be able to go back into many of these wells, re-stimulate them, and recover much more of that resource decades from now.
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Now, as our technology improves, we are developing non-nuclear ways to accomplish that same objective.
Big, stable players are able to snap up smaller companies as their technology improves before the economy or the IPO market.
As the technology improves, Ballay and Mueller expect that customers will soon be able to use their phones instead of a computer.
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The cost of producing solar panels is continuing to fall, and, as the technology improves, they should be cheaper to produce than carbon fuels.
"As DNA technology improves there will be a growing stock of scientific evidence which can perhaps buttress the claims of an Israeli ancestry, " he says.
Yet as UAV technology improves they are set to become an even more important part of security and military operations -- part of a system that gathers and relays information to other drones, ground control, manned aircraft and satellites.
One reason for Renault's leasing model is to allow vehicle owners to upgrade their batteries as and when the technology improves.
But as volume picked up, technology improves, costs go down.
As that effort completes and the technology improves, they will likely lower that threshold.
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As illustrated in the figure, technology improves exponentially, but social, political and economic systems tend to change incrementally.
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As demand for crowdsourcing labor grows and technology improves, Mr. Robertson adds, workers can now make the equivalent of full-time annual wages from hundreds of temporary jobs.
But manufacturers believe that as the scale of the industry increases and the technology improves, a major tipping point will come within the next decade: cost superiority.
Pressure from both machine-stitching (as quality improves) and thermal-sealing (as technology costs fall) will squeeze an entire segment of this lucrative industry right off the map.
Adding PUF technology significantly improves the chip's protection from reverse engineering attacks, as it removes the permanent presence of the digital encryption key on the device.
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If and when face-recognition technology improves to the point where surreptitious cameras can routinely recognise individuals, privacy, as it has existed in the public sphere, will in effect be wiped out.
Yet ironically, as Microsoft slowly improves the security of its products by, for instance, incorporating firewall technology, anti-virus systems and spam filters its actions increasingly start to resemble those that, in the past, have got the firm into trouble with regulators.
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