Members of this Committee, others in the Congress, Cabinet officers in the new Bush Administration, policy analysts and leading industrialists were aghast at the imminent prospect of a technology in which the United States leads the world -- state-of-the-art aerospace design and manufacturing -- being sold off to the Japanese.
Lime Brokerage, a technology provider, has raised the prospect of a rogue algorithm going awry.
Instead, demand remained strong into early 2009 and technology companies were faced with the prospect of having to scramble to maintain inventory.
Could the prospect of this wearable device technology falling into the hands of Google or Samsung (for instance) prompt Apple to expedite its own product development?
The prospect of a transforming new technology is oft accompanied by hyperbole, or grand statements of intent, particularly when investors are approaching the feeding frenzy peak of their ten year love-hate-love tech cycle.
It could also spark a browser war, however, irritating corporate information-technology administrators who don't like the prospect of having to test and maintain competing browsers, says Tim Hickernell, associate lead research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group.
Places like China, South Africa and the Pacific rim countries, particularly, will adopt the technology eventually, so we could be faced with the prospect of importing fruit into this country in 10 or 20 years' time.
Prospect School, too, specialising in sport and information technology, has been winning accolades.
The technology implementation behind social business, by comparison, is far easier a prospect.
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The only prospect for getting a return on such Western investments of high technology might be if they are guaranteed by the respective countries of origin.
That prospect is not quite as far off as yet another new fertility technology, called apomixis.
While EnableTalk is initially targeting the deaf community, the smart glove technology that they are developing has a much broader market, one that is embracing the very real prospect of wearable computing.
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An even more troubling prospect arises from a bid Hutchison Whampoa and two partners (one an American company called Savi Technology) are making to win U.S. government contracts to enhance security at American ports.
He acknowledged this raised the prospect of potential breaches that could put valuable personal data in the hands of criminals but said the technology was currently being rolled out on an "opt-in, opt-out" basis.
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