But Dr. Church is confident those costs will drop dramatically, and the speeds increase, as more advanced technology becomes available.
Some will require a set of simple tools, others more advanced technology.
This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and of course more investment.
Mr Harl thinks the Chinese will also use freer trade to acquire more advanced technology, so that they can harvest bigger and better crops.
As digital cable and interactive TV become more prevalent, they are requiring cable companies to develop more advanced technology, and Gates and company are competing mightily for that business.
Competing based on labor costs is not an option, so they compete by having fewer employees and more advanced technology in order to be more productive than their global competitors.
This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and more Ethernet optical fiber links connecting all these wireless and data center nodes.
Also in the poll, 71 percent of students have access to more advanced technology at home than at school and 63 percent of teachers in the U.S. say their students know how to use technology better than they do.
They fell out of favor as more advanced graphics technology emerged.
The SETI Institute's optical and radio searches can only detect life capable of technology more advanced than ours.
The training includes practical surveying sessions by divers using traditional measurement-taking and drawings of the ship and also more specialized techniques using advanced technology.
The more advanced America's technology, the more clout it will have.
The body is a little sleeker, a signature feature is more pronounced, and the dashboard technology is a little more advanced.
It may seem odd that as technology becomes more advanced, someone needs to introduce a new device in such a basic format.
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And as technology gets more advanced and portable, it's sparking another debate about what constitutes camping: It's not a Wi-Fi equipped hotel on wheels, say some.
"Future 3D technology will have more advanced displays, which will enable different views, " he says.
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They ignore the fact that today's technology is eons more advanced than that of the 1960s, when we experienced the notorious Santa Barbara blowout.
As popular as the iPhone has been, users have pointed to obvious improvements that Apple could make to the iPhone software such as including the ability to cut and paste and conduct videoconferences, and an advanced search technology to more easily find information stored on the device.
Many other academic centers and companies are working on competing technology they say is more advanced than Second Sight's.
And we are currently developing a wide range of advanced technology vehicles, including more hybrids, more diesel engines, hydrogen internal combustion engines and even fuel cells later on down the road.
The Conservative MP for Warrington South, David Mowat, said nuclear technology is much safer and more advanced than when it was first being developed.
Those made by his firm use advanced laser-fluorescence technology: more accurate, simpler, cheaper and more robust, he says, than the gas-chromatography apparatus in common use so far.
But it L is large, it is likely that SETI searches will succeed and that the civilization that's transmitting is using a technology that is older and more advanced than our own.
More advanced process nodes will be introduced as TSMC's technology development continues to advance.
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Cars will become more crash-worthy by design, and will utilize advanced technology to help drivers avoid getting into accidents in the first place or at least minimize their severity.
While the Internet Messenger Watch is probably on the cutting edge for digital watch technology, more sophisticated consumers accustomed to more advanced messaging will find it lacking when they get a message and want to talk back.
As databases in general become more strategically vital, and as cloud technology becomes essential within advanced IT architectures, Oracle is betting that the combination of speed and cost-performance offered by its increasingly popular Exadata engineered systems will allow the company to stay well ahead of other alternatives.
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In 1978 when Christopher Reeve filled Superman's red boots, technology had advanced to make Superman look a little more realistic.
It will benefit from new glass technology which will let in more light, together with advanced thermal screens to keep in heat.
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Kurzweil's big idea is simple: Each new technology unlocks the ability to build and distribute advanced technologies more quickly than before, resulting in an accelerating rate of change.
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