Instead of looking for the earliest signs of industrialisation, then, perhaps the thing to do is to let the imagination run riot and ask what technology might do to a solar system if it had tens or hundreds of thousands of years to work its magic.
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We used to look at a new technology and ask, How many people use it?
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What if Steve Jobs failed to ask what if you combined technology and design to create the ultimate customer experience?
When we have a medical problem, we go to the doctor and ask for the latest medical technology to address the problem.
Ask your office information-technology guru for a lesson in Excel or PowerPoint.
He was always willing to speak with us when we called to invite him to a Focus Group or to ask him silly questions about Technology that we didn't understand.
At no point prior to its deployment of its altered technology did EchoStar ask the District Court, which had continuing jurisdiction over the case, to review the new design for patent infringement.
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They want to be able to interact live, to ask questions, to leverage the technology resources.
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But when considering the ultimate fate of technology companies, always ask yourself: will my grandmother care about this company?
Apostolos Gerasoulis, executive vice president of search technology at Google competitor Ask.com is equally pessimistic about the search industry's battles with Webmasters who manipulate results.
They have access to every technology convenience they could ask for.
Officially, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Communications and Technology will meet to ask federal officials about the billions (yes, billions) they plan to spend to create a communication system that allows police, fire and other public safety officials to talk to each other.
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This site where you could ask and answer questions, often about technology, was very fashionable amongst the digerati at the end of 2010, with heady talk of it overtaking Twitter.
Ask yourself before you answer: Did the technology capital bust of 1985 kill the young PC industry?
But when people ask me about the current state of iDEN technology, I simply tell them it's OVER.
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Of course there are the common questions being asked, such as whether or not these pieces qualify as art and whether it's ok to replace the craftsmen with machines (you know, the same questions people ask every time a new "art" technology comes out).
Before laying out those tests, automakers must ask themselves hard questions about the breadth of the technology capabilities they are currently developing for a driverless future.
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At the risk of sounding like the nerd who cried wolf, I ask you to close your eyes and imagine what cheap technology and clever entrepreneurs around the world--not just in Silicon Valley--might do to your business model.
Ask questions yes, only makes it better and improves the technology.
To kick things off, let me ask you to ponder a very fundamental question about your relationship with technology.
In science we ask this and also whether we already know well enough exactly what technology to invest in?
If the whole mission of Techonomy is based on the assumption that technology today lies at the heart of economic progress, it seems fair to ask: Does it really?
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The question we have to begin to ask ourselves is not how do we employ all the people who are rendered obsolete by technology, but how can we organize a society around something other than employment?
As a consequence of his paper, U.S. President Barack Obama would ask his Bioethics Commission, chaired by Amy Gutmann, to make recommendations about how the emerging technology should be monitored.
Or-in a true display of technology integration-viewers who were set up to use the department's videoconferencing system could ask their questions live, as if they were in the same room as the speaker.
Rather than patenting and licensing their designs, developers ask each other permission to mimic an idea or do so on their own, sometimes using open-source technology.
Some speculated that Ask was becoming a bland portal site, dropping its own search algorithm in favor of licensing Google's search technology.
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