While The Times's Will Hodgkinson said the opening night "demonstrated that it is imagination and the power of art, combined with ruthless technological efficiency, that is at the heart of Kraftwerk's magic".

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Growth based only on increased inputs of capital rather than on efficiency gains will eventually be subject to diminishing returns, so in developed economies, where the capital stock is already large, technological advances and efficiency gains are the keys.

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Technological improvements like energy efficiency and the demise of the Hummer have also made us less vulnerable to oil price swings.

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That is because technological gains in fuel efficiency, instead of being used for better mileage -- something that American car buyers seem to actually care little about -- were used for increased size and speed.

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Each stage of converting and transmitting power results in a loss of efficiency, but with technological improvements these losses are being reduced.

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These chief executives have a much bigger ask than higher productivity, greater efficiency, or greater technological savvy: they want all of their employees to bring more creativity to all that they do.

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They hope to drive the program into a political and technological dead-end by denying it the synergy and efficiency that can come from an integrated management structure and by diverting funds from space- to ground-based defensive systems.

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Their efficiency in terms of automatic control could end up making their technological innards even more complex and prone to problems--though Pouletty said manual control was available as well.

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"Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.

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