Uber is striving to modernize an entrenched industry and bring it, however reluctantly, into the digital age.

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Panagopulos, for example, is determined to modernize the ferry industry, sending his ships into competitive international waters, but he has trouble getting a foothold closer to home.

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In 2008, the Pathways Commission was formed as a partnership between the SEC and private industry to modernize the accounting profession.

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Many of the needed fixes are surprisingly simple, and new technology has arrived to modernize the antiquated systems that make the medical industry one of the least wired businesses in the U.S. economy.

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Many of the needed fixes are surprisingly simple, and new technology has arrived to modernize the antiquated systems that make the medical industry one of the least wired businesses in the U.S. economy (see related story, p. 78).

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