As the article indicates, this value has been largely eclipsed by the progress of technology.
The progress of technology is dramatic, too, but not cyclical.
The biggest issue may be the relentless progress of our technology, that makes older devices and all the component technologies used in them obsolete.
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By 2020 or so, depending on the progress of fuel cell technology, the last of the island's 9, 500 gasoline cars will be gone and only water-vapor-emitting fuel cell autos will remain, according to Taniguchi's plan.
Agencies must use a performance based management system that provides timely information regarding the progress of an information technology investment.
He helped build the database engine in SQL Server 2000, co-founded Spathe.com, and served as Director of Technology at Progress Software and as chief technology officer at AppZero.com.
They have made progress checking the proliferation of weapons technology, of which China, up until at least 1992, was a notorious exporter.
Because of its progress with chip technology to handle so-called "3G" services like high-speed wireless access, Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ) is a core holding of Gilder's.
Whenever progress is made in the name of technology, we lose a piece of our humanity as well.
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If the whole mission of Techonomy is based on the assumption that technology today lies at the heart of economic progress, it seems fair to ask: Does it really?
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It said the reason was largely attributable to changing medical practice, including "progress in medical technology and the provision of alternatives to hospital admission".
What this shows is that structural features of the military marketplace reduce the value of competition as technology programs progress from development to production to fielding.
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As we watch the Arab Spring we can see how delicate these very real revolutions in progress, launched through the power of social technology, really are.
Thiel thinks there has been a dearth of investment and progress in futuristic technologies like space technology, biotech or artificial intelligence.
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The most violent charges are yet to come, so we must turn to the forces of progress and credible personalities who will validate the technology.
We cannot accept that continued progress in technology will be accompanied by a hollowing out of the middle class.
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The closer it looks, the more it will grasp that Pentagon technology spending is an engine of economic progress.
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Still, it might be better if the sceptics concentrated not on attacking trade as such, but on demanding help for the workers who suffer as a result of economic progress, whether the cause is trade or technology.
"Mr Fisker's departure is not expected to impact the company's pursuit of strategic partnerships and financing to support Fisker Automotive's continued progress as a pioneer of low-emission hybrid electric powertrain technology, " the company said in a statement.
With the aid of technology, Dr. Topol says, medical progress may well begin to resemble modern computers' own astonishing surge in processing power and data storage.
Despite some improvement this year, Mr Woodhead says pupils' progress in information technology is unsatisfactory in more than a third of primary schools and more than four in 10 secondary schools.
Mobeam's patented technology solves the key problem that has limited the progress of mobile commerce - the vast majority of existing POS systems are unable to communicate with smartphones.
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But we at Techonomy and our speakers believe we are in an era of technology breakthroughs that can enable any community to make rapid progress if it embraces them.
Significant progress was recently made on this front with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's (China's telecom regulator), announced plans to release the entire 190MHz of their 2.5GHz spectrum for TDD-LTE deployments in China and their adoption of the same Band 41 format advocated by Clearwire and other GTI members around the globe including Softbank Mobile (Softbank).
With progress so rapid, the technology in the Google car has miles and miles of open road in front of it.
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Quite the opposite: The technology used to produce these seeds is a paragon of agricultural progress and benefits the environment, so those who oppose it must face some inconvenient truths.
While technology should be improving human progress, this clearly shows the negative impact of these technologies.
Apple did not fix the vast majority of flaws in Siri and did not appear to make much progress in advancing the technology.
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Some progress has been made in tackling the cults at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, thanks to 200-odd security officers, covert surveillance and student informants.
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