We've all heard stories about six-or-seven-figure technology purchases that never got off the ground or were only implemented narrowly due to product shortcomings or too little human bandwidth.
As illustrated in the figure, technology improves exponentially, but social, political and economic systems tend to change incrementally.
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If you are serious about climate change, you've got to figure out is there technology that can allow us to sequester coal and the emissions that are set out.
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Three decades later, in Sri Lanka, he was trying to figure how to use technology to bridge the gap between his imagination and what could be shown convincingly on a movie screen.
In the issue of Nature that also contains the Human Genome Project's paper on the genome, a team of Rosetta scientists outlined how they refocused the company's technology to figure out whether DNA sequences constitute complete genes.
Such objections have made Lanier an unusual figure: he is a technology expert who dislikes what technology has become.
It is already competitive with plastic injection-moulding for runs of around 1, 000 items, and this figure will rise as the technology matures.
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The head editor is Owen Thomas, a well-known figure in the Silicon Valley technology scene, having been an editor of Venturebeat, NBC Bay Area and Gawker site Valleywag.
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The takeaway for me in my research is that the Chief Marketing Officer is going to need the Chief Information Officer or the Chief Technology Officer to figure out the best solution.
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They really needed technology to help them figure out the right inventory levels.
He was the leading figure in developing alliances with major technology players, ultimately forging a broad acceptance of the vision he pioneered in the software industry.
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The idea is to imagine the future, specifically as relates to technology and how people use it, create plausible scenarios that might actually come about as technology develops, and then figure out how to make them happen.
Our job is to figure out the best ways to utilize new technology while mitigating risks not finding giving lame excuses not to do something.
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That allows a little breathing room to figure out what is going on with all these technology gabfests.
In an entertainment industry increasingly shaped by digital technology, can even such an influential figure as Mr Spielberg really defy digital?
What we want to focus on is advanced manufacturing that combines new technology, so research and development to figure out how are we going to create the next Twitter, how are we going to create the next Google, how are we going to create the next big thing -- but make sure that production is here.
And a lot of people are trying to figure out what they intend to do with this new technology.
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But pushing that figure up to a mere 5 watts would allow LCRD technology to have downlink speeds of 1 gigabyte per second and uplink speeds of 100 megabytes per second out to near earth distances.
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We know more than a few preschoolers who seem more adept at technology than their still-trying-to-figure-out-the-VCR parents, but if for no other reason than the flashy colors, we think more than a few kids might dig Fisher-Price's new Kid-Tough digital camera and "FP3" player.
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This is a company that is specializing in LED lighting, has been extraordinarily effective in driving down the costs of high-efficiency lighting that is, over time, I think going to make a huge difference, not just for businesses who use the technology, but also for a country that needs to figure out how do we operate in a more energy-efficient way.
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This is where the non participants in technology fail us on both sides, not enough brains to figure out how to regulate and secondly the lack of motivation to learn about what goes on behind the scenes.
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Because financial institutions tend to be fairly secretive about technology that provides them a competitive advantage, it is hard to figure out how much supercomputing is deployed in the business.
We have to figure out a way to engage legions of young innovators who really understand next generation technology in channeling their energy into healthcare solutions.
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Figure 1 in the accompanying power point file (from the April 2011 Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, Coughlin Associates, www.tomcoughlin.com) shows historical quarterly HDD average sales prices (ASPs) from Q4 1998 through Q1 2011.
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What she said resonated with me and my colleagues because many amazing educators across the country are trying to figure out how to meet the needs of these 21st century learners and the role technology can play in that transformation.
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Hoffman expects the maker of technology for wireless phones to forecast sales of 96 million handsets--a figure he deems conservative.
Jones is betting that as technology cycles get shorter, manufacturers will favor nimble suppliers who can help them figure out how to churn out smaller, faster chips.
To provide answers that aren't already in Google's ever-expanding database, the company will blend new semantic-search technology with its current system to better recognize the value of information on websites and figure out which ones to show in search results.
"That figure has been growing month by month the past year, especially as we get finished building the technology, " said Whitehorn.
Here, again, technology's getting in the way: It's so advanced that technicians can't figure out what's wrong with it.
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