Yet even in this relatively straightforward task of making public information properly public, technology offers plenty of scope for blunder.
"A lot of what they're doing is putting data together and creating information to give a better customer experience, " says Joe Dignan, a chief analyst for public sector technology at Ovum.
In that case, Scalia made the hairsplitting distinction between technology that picks up information that is out in public view and technology that reveals information that otherwise could only be obtained with eavesdropping equipment inside the house.
"He gets very good marks for that, " says Randy Pitzer, a technology public relations specialist with Edelman.
But to what extent is the general public really using technology to chose where we eat, and how often?
This is the first public showing of technology that is not expected to be shipping in mainstream HDDs until 2015 at the earliest.
Seagate Technology Public Limited Company (STX) has had its declining topsline over the last four months taken out a week ago, only to snapback the last couple sessions.
Art has an important role to play in the discourse around biotechnology because it can offer unique articulations of the complex, polarized and often emotionally charged responses the public has towards technology.
The extraordinarily good performance of the US economy in recent years has owed much to new technology, as Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan never tires of repeating - and to public confidence in that technology - hence the astonishing multiples at which many of the new tech companies still trade.
Friedland describes the growing use of personal technology in public spaces as a chain reaction.
How do we weigh the personal advantages, and public risks, of technology use?
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The results of the public poll proved, technology is underutilized in schools and further pushed the conversation about integrating technology into the education system.
It entails public disclosure of the technology surrounding an invention.
On the public market side, technology firms focused on the corporate market, such as data company Splunk and HR software company Workday, have done well in the public markets, says Anand Sanwal, CEO and co-founder of CB Insights.
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The questions about the initiative's privacy policies also apply to its role in surveying government networks, says Jim Lewis, a former foreign service official and director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Last month, OSTP and the Department of Transportation co-hosted a Safety Data Jam at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building that brought together 40 leaders from technology, public safety, and government communities to discuss public safety challenges and to brainstorm creative new solutions that leverage open government safety data.
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Since then however the public adoption of social media and mobile technology has grown at such a pace that the general public actually expect some form of engagement via these channels that goes beyond simple broadcast messaging.
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Those days are long gone, but only because the public never really understood the technology.
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At that time, REITs were beaten up as the public rushed to invest in technology stocks.
In these instances, the proportion of the public with access to the technology grew over time.
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC): The public resource for health information technology running a number of programs.
Unequal, which hopes to go public, says its patented technology uses DuPont Co.
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Senator Alex Padilla, who authored the bill, has become an advocate for the autonomous technology in the public policy sector.
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Instead, the letter calls for a new approach to climate and energy policy centered on direct public investment on clean energy technology.
The same cannot be said for public support of an energy technology.
However, eventually it will become as public as any other defence technology.
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That has continued this year, with Internet companies such as Yelp Inc. going public, while enterprise-technology companies such as Splunk Inc. also staged strong IPOs.
Next year she will undertake research work at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, a public corporation of the Catalan government in Spain.
If we do not put a secure network around our intellectual property, it will be as if we are developing ground breaking technology as a public service to the world.
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Looking at public sector investment in cloud technology, for example, a global survey released last year by KPMG International found that government organizations still lagged behind the private sector.
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