In the history of European clock technology, the monk is an early and very rare example of a self-acting automaton, one whose mechanism is wholly contained and hidden within its body.
Military technology, unsurprisingly, is at the forefront of the march towards self-determining machines (see Technology Quarterly).
Done right, this generates the kind of self-sustaining market leadership that helped Japanese technology firms to terrify American rivals in the 1980s.
The Autobots represent the potential for humanity to win out, to overcome the loss of self and individuality and humanity to the cold soulless isolation of technology.
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To enable this sort of performance, however, the United States is going to have to become self-reliant in another critical technology: the production of advanced, high-performance lithium-ion batteries.
One or two examples, perhaps a Polaroid and a finished print from a fashion shoot by Richard Avedon, would have illustrated the technology's value in aiding experimentation across the board, not just among a group of self-identified artists.
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The development of self-driving technology is being spurred by several forces.
The development of self-driving car technology is being spurred on by several forces.
Toyota has given a taste of self-drive car safety technology ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week.
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Advocates of self-driving cars also say the technology could help reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, in part by automatically choosing the most efficient route to a destination.
As Microsoft's Windows client marketing manger, the self-confessed "technology geek" has all sorts of gadgets installed that make it seem like something out of a futuristic movie.
Robot and instant communications technology capitalize on our habitual sharing of self, Turkle is saying, at cost to the healthier ways of connecting.
The site dates back to the 1980s, when Mr. Needham, a self-described technology geek and cinephile, created a database listing the names of the cast and crew in all the films he had seen.
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This was also the first interview I have ever done where I felt self-conscious about pulling out my personal technology, curious what he might think of the technology choices I have made.
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One, he thinks of his technology as acomplement to modern medicine (some self-trackers believed they can do better than the pros) and it focuses on the next stage of self-tracking: the action behind the data using analytics, pattern learning and correlation.
Astronomers are uncertain if this represents a genuine rarity of systems like our own, or a simple self-selection problem in which our current technology only has the sensitivity to pick up the weird systems.
And while the clothes and equipment people have when they go out on the fells "has never been better", Mr Brailey said there has been a definite decline in the level of self-reliance skills, such as map reading, and more reliance on technology.
It was not the most adept early adopter of online ticketing, self-service airport kiosks or in-flight technology and entertainment.
Perhaps this has been the promise of the American experiment in self-government all along, and we have only been waiting for the powerful and democratizing technology of the communications age to seize it.
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