There are futurists who are far, far too optimistic about the rate of technological progress, and others who are too vastly too pessimistic.

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Others see it as progress and the triumph of big data.

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The move toward transparency applauded by Bruce Freed and others is in and of itself a sign of progress but, like all progress, it begets new problems.

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And when he returned to the country where he and so many others had fought so long ago, it sent a powerful message of progress and of healing.

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Today we will address two enduring barriers to progress toward higher levels of IT maturity, the fear of performing an analysis and the difficulty of convincing others to join the party.

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It helps also to gain as much feedback as possible from others, to have standards against which you can measure your progress so that you are aware of how far you have to go.

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Fortunately, through the combined support of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other US Government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and others, progress in developing new technologies that prevent HIV infection has been notable.

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