There are many contexts in which smart technologies are unambiguously useful and even lifesaving.
Will those autonomous spaces be preserved in a world replete with smart technologies?
Whoever owns the most and best robots and other smart technologies, will end up with a monopoly on the entire economy.
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.
Smart Technologies cofounder Jeffrey DeCoux, then only 23, had vague plans for an Internet software firm when he met Heller at a conference on startup financing in early 1995.
Climate change policies also help us reduce our imports of fossil fuels and help to give us the lead in smart technologies as resources become more scarce.
Treybig, Heller and Maples all had a hand in building Smart Technologies, an Austin company that wants to be to Internet software what German software giant SAP is to industrial automation.
The problem with many smart technologies is that their designers, in the quest to root out the imperfections of the human condition, seldom stop to ask how much frustration, failure and regret is required for happiness and achievement to retain any meaning.
Each of the utilities contacted had deployed or were planning to deploy smart grid technologies.
The Obama administration unveiled a new campaign today to accelerate deployment of smart grid technologies.
And nothing will happen unless regulators force utilities to adopt those smart grid technologies.
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Some of the recent trials of trying to integrate smart grid technologies into homes have flopped too.
We will never stop providing the latest smart mobile technologies to help users live a life extraordinary.
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Energy markets have created many new employment sectors like solar, wind, biofuels, batteries, sensors and smart grid technologies.
Policy makers and regulators should recognize that, although smart grid technologies have great potential, they are still maturing.
Smart grid technologies have gotten huge government support in the past two years.
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The same can even be said for the most ubiquitous smart phone technologies.
Moreover, an industry group of sorts, the GridWise Alliance, has already formed in an effort to promote smart grid technologies.
And Korea is quietly connecting its national labs, historically great technical universities, and public utilities to conduct large-scale tests of cutting-edge smart grid technologies.
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Everyone agrees that consumers need to be educated about the entirely new types of energy use data that can be created with Smart Grid technologies.
Is it fundamentally going to shift because of smart grid technologies?
Just this week the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) passed a resolution endorsing the continuing modernization of the electric system with smart grid technologies.
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Having regulators, as a condition of approving smart grid investments, require utilities to deploy smart grid technologies in a manner consistent with reasonable and effective cyber and physical security best practices.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has approved billions of dollars to technology developers such as Silver Spring and a bunch of utilities to test and deploy smart grid technologies across the country.
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These "smart" technologies can help business too, of course, as they help cement a community of four or five billion people who will be connected to each other via the internet, each and every one of them a potential customer.
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In 2003, IBM co-founded the US-based GridWise Alliance that advocates for grid modernization, and in 2007, IBM formed the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC), a coalition of players in the energy and utilities market, which is helping accelerate the adoption and use of smart grid technologies and bringing digital intelligence to current systems.
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It is claimed that Scotland already has world-class research in smart grids and related technologies.
Investors would shy away from "green" solution to instead focus on so-called "smart" products and technologies, such as digital assistants - ranging from portable screens to vehicles or robots - that help individuals in their everyday lives.
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Smart meeting assistants will combine technologies to create a real-time transcription, captioning, and translation experience for group meetings.
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Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers.
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