For Fairs, wearable technologies such as Google Glass point to another major evolution in design: the disappearance of objects altogether.
But, then, the use of evolution in design is really an admission that researchers have not as yet found anything better.
The VT50 series continues the design evolution as seen in last year's VT30 series with a stunning one sheet of glass design.
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We see the S1082 as a different beast -- it's an evolution of an existing design that's really meant for business users.
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After boycotting a series of hearings in Topeka last May, in which supporters of intelligent design criticized evolution, science groups are now mobilizing to defend what biologists say is a bedrock scientific theory.
My final word: Tablet First is not an IT choice, it is a pedagogic process to ease the evolution of mentality and design choices in order to comply to the new post-PC landscape.
The range and ingenuity of American design reflects a historical evolution.
It then repeats the process on the survivors until something useful emerges though, unlike natural evolution, there is a bit of intelligent design in the process, too.
But there is no doubt that the rapid evolution of his views into the limelight was not intelligent design.
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Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael Behe testified for a third day on behalf of a school board that is defending its decision a year ago, to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution.
He said the exhibit has more to do with opinions reflected in a recent poll by The Kansas City Star, which showed that just over a quarter of Kansans believe in evolution while more than half support either creationism or intelligent design.
This time around, it's intelligent design that's being presented as an alternate to evolution.
Mitigating that problem is one of the design challenges that we face as we consider the future evolution of our system.
The concept of a keyboard cover appeared relatively soon into the design process, however, and it was mostly a matter of evolution as the all-important peripheral slimmed down and fleshed out.
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And that's a national strategy that supporters of intelligent design--they believe that the first step is to open up evolution to critiquing.
This uses a process of randomisation and trial-and-error (akin to mutation and selection in biological evolution) to search the vast number of possible microstructures to find the most suitable design for each subsection.
Surely human intellect, and the deliberate application of design knowledge, can devise better mechanisms than the mindless, random process of evolution?
The film presents a sympathetic view of intelligent design - the theory that the universe is too complex to be explained by evolution alone.
While the new Kansas science standards don't include intelligent design, they go further than any state guidelines so far in raising questions about evolution.
Many state and federal court cases have not only prohibited the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in public-school classrooms, but have also restrained teachers from introducing arguments against evolution in contravention of a school district's curriculum.
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