That is not to deny that antitrust action is sometimes right even in high-tech industries: Microsoft's dominance became so large, and so persistent, that it deterred rivals from innovating.
And in addition to learning about why lying is good, or why kids have a natural propensity to learn foreign languages, or whether chimps can talk, business executives are taking greater pains to communicate the right impression to customers in a tech-driven world where word-of-mouth can spread like wildfire to affect brand images.
Yet Rosen is ultimately an optimist about hi-tech and says, used right, it can open up astonishing possibilities.
And we also need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers -- places where folks can learn the skills that local business are looking for right now, from data management to high-tech manufacturing.
It's time to gear up with the right tech and turn your smartphone, e-reader or tablet computer into the universal library it was destined to be.
According to Merkel's right-hand man, Ulrich Wilhelm, Merkel used the meetings to promote the research and high-tech skills in Bavaria as on par with Silicon Valley, in addition to showcasing other potential markets in Germany.
And, right on cue, two foreign-owned, high-tech multinationals have just announced plans for the region.
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Today, thanks in part to discoveries made right here at Argonne, some of the most high-tech, fuel-efficient, pretty spiffy cars in the world are once again designed, engineered and built here in the United States.
Surely our high-tech sleep monitors can be automated too, right?
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Right now, though, one of the high tech toilets - the one built in Russia - is orbiting the Earth on the international space station, and, as NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, it's partially broken.
Just this week, GM announced they plan to hire 1, 500 workers for a new research center in Michigan to help make sure the high-tech cars of tomorrow are designed and built right here in America.
Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow said the company sold because it "just felt right" and that uncertain demand from the public for new tech-stock offerings wasn't a factor.
And that, in turn, means that the contractors start hiring some of these folks who may have been laid off -- some of them may have been trained right here at Savannah Tech.
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