Medicare, for example, is part of a health-care system whose costs are increasing with technological advances and rising life expectancy.
If Ion Torrent fails or is superceded by another technological advance outside of Life, and you cannot tell me that such is an unlikely scenario, it will be disastrous.
Others are confined to a wheelchair and technological devices simply to sustain life.
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Hard to see how that form of knowledge would equip anyone for life in a modern technological society.
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Here is a device that can bring together all of the aspects of your life into one compact nexus of technological bliss.
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Now I sit at my desk on Oct. 1, 50 years to the day when NASA began pushing the boundaries of human exploration, reminiscing on how space exploration has changed life on earth, with its technological and scientific discoveries and advancements that have helped improve our lifestyle, health and even our national security.
Moreover, for all the rhetoric of functionalism, even in their own time the most notable 1920s and '30s Bauhaus buildings and objects were really aesthetic explorations of new materials and techniques, or conceptual critiques of life in an industrial age--rather than technological inventions or discoveries in the scientific sense.
These people believe in the Technological Singularity theory: The possibility that technologically augmented intelligence will change human life as we know it or possibly wipe it out completely.
Saylor convincingly argues the growth of mobile technology marks not just another step in technological miniaturization, but an important evolution of software becoming an omnipresent force in our life in the coming years.
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With a whimsically eclectic technique (including musical sequences and special effects), she sets in motion a flashy yet complex superstructure of personal life that rests on a solid, implicit base of quasi-divine technological power and sociopolitical openness and energy.
All of this technological progress creates a more flexible work environment and contributes to a healthy work-life balance, but it poses a serious challenge to IT professionals, who face a new set of threats to data and network security.
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Economists attribute most of the stagnation in the wages of the low-skilled to rapid technological change, which has increased the demand for (and emoluments of) skilled workers and has made life harder for those without skills.
Having established modern architecture as the reality of contemporary life, he also reduced it to a set of rigid aesthetic rules stripped of its revolutionary social and technological meaning.
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