Former chairman and CEO Len Roberts came up with that, too early in the technology cycle as it turned out.
We have entered an evolved technology cycle where the consumer is savvy.
For this pattern to emerge, the Robber Baron era of our current technology cycle has to have matured and plateaued, and big companies must be in the market for incremental innovations that enhance their main offerings.
And new software from Microsoft and the blazing Itanium chip from Intel should ignite a technology buying cycle by November.
Sociologists have described a technology adoption life cycle, which represents the way an invention spreads throughout a community.
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Sounds like a virtuous cycle: Technology leads to productivity, leads to low prices, leads to disinflation, leads to booming capital markets, leads to more funded technology.
It doesn't change the underlying cycle of technology innovation.
Third, high technology companies have their own product cycle, which makes it difficult to predict whether a fallen high-technology angel is about to rise to paradise again or burn in hell.
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Gartner, an information-technology research-and-advisory firm, has coined the term hype cycle to describe exactly this sort of phenomenon: a new technology is introduced with enthusiasm, only to be followed by an emotional low when it fails to immediately deliver on its promise.
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Technology markets historically go through a natural cycle of evolving from artificially high prices during the early adoption phase to a commodity based price during its mainstream buyer phase.
Not to overplay the point, but technology looks a very big winner this coming cycle, and that pertains to many applications incorporating latest and greatest scientific techniques.
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This Continuing Resolution, if passed, would not just eliminate jobs from the solar industry, or from construction or manufacturing orders, but would eliminate jobs across the energy innovation cycle and across various innovative energy technology sectors.
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Daniel Roderick, senior vice president of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Japan's Hitachi, told Bloomberg the company is looking to secure contracts to deliver reactor technology, nuclear services, and nuclear fuel cycle services to Saudi Arabia.
The cycle starts with the creation of the technology followed by inflated expectations, disillusionment, enlightenment and the final phase of acceptance.
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It adopts the Atkinson cycle and D-4S direct injection technology to optimise both the power and fuel-efficiency benefits of Lexus Hybrid Drive.
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Technology is hot, but how long this happy investment cycle will last is anyone's guess.
That same mini washing cycle involving beads and chambers is still the core technology.
Colegrove alluded to the Gartner Hype Cycle, which explains the various phases that a technology goes through during adoption.
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On the technology front, Internet video is in its third or fourth cycle, according to Mark Hardie, a senior analyst at Forrester Research Inc.
Manufacturers, by contrast, are often weighed down by their past by pension debts and over-commitment to dud technology or caught out by a more volatile business cycle.
The idea was to create a way to Google your own data in main memory, to create much faster decision making cycle. 100, 000x faster than any other technology in the world, he says.
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Piccard hopes Solar Impulse will start a similar cycle that will lead to unimaginable new dimensions in the development of technology.
As Mr. Lepage did with the Ring Cycle, Mr. Counts fatally relies on the wow factor of technology and forgets about the people.
Because technology, both hardware and software, tends to operate on an annual update cycle, every year you have to worry about a competitor leapfrogging you in that cycle.
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Over the course of six months, the team (which met for an hour or two every week) analyzed the set-up cycle times, benchmarked competitors, mapped the current process, interviewed customers, and explored technology options.
While Huber knew next to nothing about wireless technology when he took on Project Beacon, he did know that any successful wireless product-development cycle would have to move much, much faster than the usual automotive life cycle.
Thanks to supply-chain technology and a very good CIO, Ralph Szygenda, General Motors was able to shrink the development cycle of a new Chevy car or truck from 60 months to 24--with 18 just around the corner.
It will be innovation more broadly, and new technologies across all sectors of our economy, that will create long-term expansion for the economy and a new great cycle of job growth.(See The Next Great Growth Cycle.) Manufacturing is coming back, and is being revitalized by advancing technology from the full infusion of information technology to the seeming magic of emerging 3D printing.
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