It is a natural aim for us to have a mature technology ten years from now.
Rocketry is a mature technology, and NASA has always relied on using contractors to build its rockets and spacecraft.
It may, as Marshall suggested, take a generation to see how the Internet reshapes society and human behaviour once it becomes a mature technology.
Brewing is a mature technology, to say the least.
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Second, some worried that even when the technology becomes mature enough and safe enough, the vehicle will be too expensive for people to afford.
For example, the Army is kicking off its latest armored vehicle program with a competition that imposes fixed pricing on contractors participating in the development phase a strategy that usually is not applied until technology is mature and costs are predictable.
While Apple tends to deliver a better mousetrap, it also tends to wait until the technology and infrastructure mature.
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With the technology achieving a mature state and now growing in mobile devices, broader uses for NFC are now emerging that vastly simplify use of the connectivity options already pervasive in these devices.
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"It is feasible to take Galileo satellites up with electric propulsion, if the technology is available and mature enough, " commented OHB's Ingo Engeln.
The technology wasn't mature enough yet, Boeing executives said.
As smartphones mature, there are fewer jumps in technology that will add something new to the mix, but opportunities are still out there.
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Better technology makes a nuclear capability even easier to develop, and mature technologies are ever more widely spread.
Naysayers argue that enterprise technology, still the bulk of overall tech spending, is a mature industry with a greater focus on cost savings than dramatic disruption.
Renee Klosterman, acting multimedia services manager at Washington's DIS, said her state's commitment to video technology is proven by a special Interactive Technologies Division within DIS, a mature videoconferencing system and a satellite TV studio that has all the cameras, production equipment and personnel needed to produce broadcast-quality video.
Driven by the counter-intuitive economics of the Internet and computing technology, the spread of Internet Everywhere is deconstructing the supply chains in a wide range of once-mature industries, including broadcasting, telecommunications, mass media, computing and consumer electronics, to name just a few.
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