The result will be an intimate merger between the technology-creating species and the technological evolutionary process it spawned.

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After one has made every last power plant, jet engine, assembly line and car as efficient as they can possibly be given today's technology, one either hopes for an energy-boosting technological miracle or else starts restructuring the economy.

WSJ: Joseph Sternberg: All the Hot Air in China

My position perhaps more clearly stated is that if all markets were clearing then phenomena such as: lack of educational improvement, globalization, de-industrialization, skew of technological improvement towards information technology, energy shortages, etc would show up in wages.

FORBES: Stagnation and Recession

Much as I love the march of technology and innovation, I remain skeptical of the techno-optimists who are convinced that just around the corner is the technological solution to all of our problems, ushering in the singularity or, at the very least, the United Federation of Planets.

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The adoption of clever information-technology systems to improve logistics and streamline purchasing has been particularly sluggish, despite corporate Japan's reputation for technological prowess.

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Rather than focus on earth-shaking change, with the technological and market-adoption challenges it represents, they opted instead to tweak the existing technology and focus on efficiencies.

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China runs a deficit on its technology trade with the rest of the world, and 80% of technological imports and exports are controlled by foreign-owned firms in China.

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