This absence of cost incentives is especially problematic -- paradoxically -- because of the technological progress that has occurred and will occur in medicine.
My paintings and installations are mostly about the bycatch of human activity and the race for technological progress in combination with the human error that surrounds this progress.
But what is different is the speed of technological progress since the mid-1990s, from the Internet and e-mail to cell phones and instant messaging.
The only way technological progress can lift the masses above 0.8% growth is if we match these great inventions.
As real as the cumulative technological progress has been, club makers are still mostly selling a dream: farther, higher and straighter, in the case of drivers.
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Government support, the state of the world aviation industry, the price of oil, customer support, World Trade Organization rulings, the speed of technological progress in composite materials, the reaction of industry behemoths Boeing and Airbus are all known unknowables which cause considerable uncertainty to the board of Bombardier.
First let's plot the pace of technological progress and wealth creation throughout history on an imaginary graph.
The flow of technological progress takes a very weird sort of segue when it comes to GIFs.
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It is the reason that the speed of technological progress continues to snowball.
But it is easier to block the effects of technological progress on economic integration, because integration also requires economic freedom.
There are futurists who are far, far too optimistic about the rate of technological progress, and others who are too vastly too pessimistic.
In the high-tech industry, monetary awards are a better way to ensure that the pace of technological progress does not slacken under a welter of questionable lawsuits.
The computer revolution has failed to unleash an economy-wide surge in technological progress of the sort associated with the great paradigm-shifting inventions of the past.
What is true for the United States and Europe also holds true for countries such as Mexico: Technological progress in the mobile telephony market has led to unprecedented access to information and services, reduction in consumer cost and has lifted millions of people of people out of poverty, bridging the digital divide.
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It was the avatar of a new age, a symbol of how technological progress could transform the human condition.
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The recent decades of technological progress, for example, has been a boon to women in terms of creating greater communication options and new paradigms for balancing work and family responsibilities.
Hanging in the balance are the very incentives for technological innovation and the seeds of economic progress.
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Former President Bill Clinton pointed out on stage during our commitment for Shape the Future that these partnerships are how technological progress is made for social good in the modern world.
Manufacturing as a share of private-sector employment has been declining for decades, he said, because of outsourcing and, more importantly, "the rapid pace of labor-saving technological progress, " which is affecting employment in the sector even in developing countries.
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But, in the era of big data and exponential technological progress, can there really still be a role for the 1472 model of banking?
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President GEORGE W. BUSH: Do you realize that economists say that as much as half of our nation's economic growth in the last half-century is directly due to technological progress, fueled by research and development, the kind of research and development you can do right here?
Without leaving his scientific footing, Simon developed a bias for optimism about man, knowledge, science, technological progress and the future.
As technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead.
That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
Throw in the low inflation of the past 20 years, a deregulated airline industry that's made travel much cheaper, plus technological progress that's provided the middle class with not only better cars and televisions, but every gadget from DVD players to iPods, all at lower and lower prices, and it's obvious that Mr. and Mrs.
Even fewer see the deeper connection from the current economic crisis to stagnating technological progress.
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Technological progress is not the only reason why spectrum markets would be a second-best solution, Mr Benkler argues.
An EchoStar victory in this case will dim technological progress and diminish the role of the courts in enforcing the property rights that facilitate that progress.
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They overlook the fact that that economic progress yields technological innovation and prosperity essential to support more resourceful, cleaner and healthier lifestyles.
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On the positive side there has been tremendous technological progress.
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