Yet today, the climate of innovation that has advanced technology at such a rapid pace, is being stymied by a patent system ill-adapted to the realities of modern information technology.
And even though steel and concrete are still the most cost-effective materials, new combinations of these substances provide greater strength and fire retardance, says W. Gene Corley, senior vice president at Construction Technology Laboratories in Skokie, Ill.
Another SIF intermediary, AIDS United, is using mobile engagement teams and telemedicine technology to reach the most chronically ill with specialized interventions that improve quality of life.
At SWC Technology Partners in Oak Brook, Ill.
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Here's hoping that the affiliated Tech Policy Summit--with some participants' eyes cast nervously toward Washington--helps ensure policymakers don't devour the technology sector's promise with ill-conceived intervention (your Wayne will be a panelist there).
But poorly conceived technology strategies can complicate risks, and ill-informed IT investments worsen already long odds of success.
Often the reasons for doing it are ill-defined, the executives inexperienced in making technology investments and the payoff too long in coming.
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Now a team of researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have refined the technique at the ILL to examine and exploit gravity's quantum ways.
Inside a metal-clad tower at the gas technology Institute in suburban Des Plaines, Ill. sits a narrow, 40-foot steel tube bristling with instrumentation ports and pressurized pipes.
Enter Peter Lankford, founder of STAC (Securities Technology Analysis Center), in Warrenville, Ill.
Within four months of launching, the technology services company, based in Metamora, Ill.
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Card proponents argue that like any technology, smart cards can be used for good or ill, and society could pass laws enhancing security and preventing abuse.
We are at the dawn of an exponentially advancing technological arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.
"We build our new technology edifices on the rubble of older technology, " says Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley technology forecaster who relishes telling the story of Disney's ill-fated house of the future and other now neglected technologies.
Smoking chestnuts to brew in a dark stout will be his project for the summer, says Mr. Leander, the chief technology officer of a medical malpractice insurance brokerage in Elmwood Park, Ill.
With the woes of the financial sector grabbing headlines, technology companies could opt to write-off bad acquisitions now, kill ill-conceived product lines or lay off unneeded workers.
Taught by rote, with little time spent on analysis, many are ill equipped to compete with bright young talent from abroad for jobs in an economy flush with 21st-century technology.
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