But all too often, their best efforts are thwarted because the technological revolution that has transformed our society over the past two decades has yet to reach many parts of our government.

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Hawking made the point that a short-lived technological society (a small value for "L") means little chance of contact.

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It took further centuries to harness the results of System Two thinking to build a complex technological society that delivers unprecedented material benefits to populations so large that millions would perish if advanced technologies that are commonplace today, and magic to most people, were to disappear.

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Through breakthrough technological innovation, they extend the productivity frontier of companies and society.

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Johnson uses the example to show how society has always misplaced its fears over technological change.

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But the commonly-expressed conviction that technological innovation will immiserate broad segments of society is only somewhat less irrational.

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Since then, the country has grown to be a progressive, cutting-edge technological society.

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Without the skills to participate in a literate, technological world and the knowledge to transform their environment, people will remain on the margins of society, and society itself will lose their potential contributions.

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Mr Goodwin's lyrical, impressionistic approach, while appropriate to his descriptions of palace life and society, becomes a hindrance when he examines the confluence of military reverses, sloth at court and European technological advance that heralded the empire's decline.

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