Observing recent trends, the sustained drive for 'green energy' should continue to push human-powered technology forward, and despite the limitations to development, human-powered gyms, dance clubs, and maybe even video game consoles are likely to feature strongly in our immediate future.
Putting the current buzz aside, how far could this human-powered technology develop?
Raaijen, who was consulted on the Sustainable Dance Floor project, agreed that opting for human-powered technology at present was not a financially-based decision.
The trick, says human-resources-technology consultant Elaine Orler of Talent Function Group, is building software that can predict a good fit between candidate and employer.
The firm followed up with Petman, a two-legged prototype that applies the same technology to human-style walking.
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The idea is credited to Uefa president Michel Platini, who opposes goal-line technology and wants to retain a human element in decision-making.
It looked at six professions--accounting and finance, advertising and marketing, human resources, information technology, legal, and sales and business development--and at nine regions across the nation.
Though it may sound like science fiction, a renowned South Korean robotics expert believes he has developed the first generation of technology to give robots human-like qualities.
The only way to comprehend it is in terms of a human struggle to keep technology human, given its natural tendency to evolve in disturbing and incomprehensible-to-humans way.
Outstanding contribution to the application of Science and Technology to industry or to human well-being in a developing country.
As chief technology officer of Health and Human Services, Park appeared on stage with Aneesh Chopra who held the newly-created post of Chief Technology Officer.
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Our world becomes more complex every day, technology grows at an ever-increasing pace, and human systems of organization are changing and evolving before our very eyes.
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The early DNA sequencers that were used in the Human Genome Project started out at Perkin-Elmer before a restructuring made the technology part of a separate company.
In 2008, the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University and its collaborators at North Carolina State University held an NSF-funded citizens technology forum on the topic of nanotechnology and human enhancement.
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While GSK's partner Human Genome Sciences invented the drug, Glaxo invested in HGS' gene-hunting technology back in 1993 and stayed the course even after murky early results.
"My wealth is from a human business, not a technology business, " Omidyar says during a long, late-day talk in Paris.
When personal meetings were not possible for our participants, they embraced technology, such as high-definition videoconferencing, that most closely emulates human interactions.
The brain imaging technology is being developed for a US-led effort to map the human brain called the Human Connectome Project.
Americans have lost sight of a basic truth: war is not launched by technology, whether by spears or inter-continental missiles, but by human beings who make a decision to fight or not.
He has pioneered the use of technology to study cancer-associated genes and to construct animal models of many human cancer types, including cancers of the lung, pancreas, brain, and ovaries.
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Ultimately he welcomes technology going beyond what nature intended, exploring the full range of possibilities in the human-machine interface.
By the mid-1980s new technology meant the codes could be read automatically by sorting machines with no human intervention.
In doing so, ironically (and as Nietzsche would have predicted), he transformed himself to beyond-human, and left the rest of us with deeply scary questions about how we should relate to technology.
The Obama Administration has canceled plans it inherited to send astronauts back to the Moon, the Space Shuttle is about to retire, and the only near-term human space flight initiative on the books is a handout to rich California businessmen to update old technology.
Both men agreed also that technology and innovation are important to economic well-being, globalization, and the future of human prosperity.
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Personal Capital's planners can't perform all of the functions of full-service planners, like estate planning, and the company's plan to combine technology with human service could make the process less personal.
Some of the more far-out observations came from folks who are looking at new ways technology might change our view of the human body.
But what if technology just knew how the human body moved, how the human voice worked, and could react accordingly -- without people having to touch a gadget?
Building a human-sized wormhole, for example, would require harnessing vast amounts of peculiar quantum field energy and deploying gravitational stabilizing technology that would need the resources of a cosmic super-civilization.
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