Along the way it has become both vastly more powerful, but also more complex.

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For the past 30 or so years, tech vendors have generally introduced streams of new products that were not only increasingly more powerful and capable, but also increasingly more complex, requiring ever-greater volumes of integration, testing, tuning, modifying, patching, upgrading, monitoring, etc.

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The new measures make hedging more complex, but it also has an impact on currency speculation, something the government said it wanted to rein in as much as possible given the global weak dollar and its impact on Brazil.

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Advanced information technology makes it easier for someone in San Francisco to speak to someone in Paris, but it also makes the ideas to be communicated more complex.

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But as Guessoum reveals, Islamic attitudes to science are more complex (and also more frustrating), depending on the subject.

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