Simultaneously, an explosion of technology, social media and e-commerce has created a more informed and empowered citizenry.
The author of "Teaching Digital Natives, " whose success pushed him onto the speaking circuit, says the explosion of technology over the last 10 years is just the start of a symbiotic new world.
He says the coming technology explosion will drive out factory workers, low-skilled laborers, customer-service operators and even truck and taxi drivers (thank you Google Driverless Car).
Ignoring the extraordinary insights emerging from modern science would be about as clever as believing the current technology explosion is short-lived and the Cloud will soon dissipate.
Along with the explosion in mobile technology to support commerce, startups like LevelUp have begun disrupting the payments market by offering free payment processing in return for paid loyalty and marketing services, showing that we are quickly moving into an age where the value of payment data exceeds the value of transaction fees.
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This led to a fascinating career path that began with the explosion of Silicon Valley technology drawing the film business toNorthern California.
He got an agreement to raise taxes which boosted investor confidence in a balanced budget and helped unleash an explosion of business investment in technology resulting in 22.2 million new jobs.
The liberated investor gave rise to a discount brokerage industry at the same time that technology made possible an explosion in trading.
One of the symptoms of the illness patents have caused the technology industry is the explosion of lobbyists pushing the agenda of big patent portfolio holders.
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With the explosion of medical apps and mobile scheduling technology, reaching your doctor to schedule an appointment in 2012 has radically changed.
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But we also need to acquire and perfect the technology to detonate a nuclear explosion in space that would be sufficiently powerful to alter a huge object's course and send it into unpopulated space.
North Korea had built up expectations for the explosion for months by launching rockets to test missile technology and then undertaking a propaganda campaign, a pattern seen in both 2006 and 2009.
One important reason for the divergence is that there has been a huge explosion of natural gas supply due to new innovations in technology, coupled with warmer weather in the U.S. during the current winter season, which has reduced demand.
Dr Richard Bojar, principal research fellow at the skin research centre, said there had been an explosion in the number of different bacteria identified because of better technology, but it did not necessarily have a clinical application.
What makes an intelligence explosion so worrisome is that intelligence is not a tool or a technology.
This rechargeable explosion proof LED flashlight offers multiple operating modes and the reliability and high output of LED lighting technology.
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The Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 demonstrated how little improvement in oil cleanup technology had been made since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
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