Even the advertisements and technology breakthroughs play a role, creating expectations of how things might be that can never match our mortal realities.
For example, railways came into existence because of the invention of the steam engine and automobiles were created because of technology breakthroughs in automobile engines.
Harry Anthony insists that technology breakthroughs make older failures largely irrelevant.
Developing countries demand low-cost products with adequate, durable technology, while developed countries expect frequent breakthroughs in technology at reasonable price points.
But it isn't likely that science fiction authors are going to envision future scientific breakthroughs or future technology accurately.
In addition, government spending on wartime technology produced a great many breakthroughs that impacted consumer goods production for decades.
Most breakthroughs in food technology are taken for granted (see box, p. 22).
The need for such reform is underscored by the promise of fantastic breakthroughs in ATC technology, dubbed the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS).
We believe that when we support research into medical breakthroughs or new technology, then entire new industries will start here and stay here and hire here.
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"Vital Signs" puts the spotlight on medical breakthroughs, showcasing the latest technology and developments.
We have the science and the technology to relieve pain, and impressive breakthroughs are coming that will do even more.
He worries that the next breakthroughs in energy, transport and information technology will occur elsewhere.
Most of the big breakthroughs in math, physics and computer technology are made by the obnoxiously young.
Yet breakthroughs on this scale are needed if technology vendors are to see their visions come true.
We've also made the largest investment in basic research funding in American history, an investment that will spur not only new discoveries in energy, but breakthroughs in medicine, in science and technology.
But once again technology came to the rescue, with hydraulic fracturing and breakthroughs in oil drilling.
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The company spends heavily on research and development, and it has produced breakthroughs in semiconductor, screen and computer-memory technology.
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The Boston brain trust commonly known as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has added a new battery architecture to the list of potentially game-changing scientific breakthroughs looming on the not-so-distant horizon.
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