If it is, the social and political discussions that need to happen and reach conclusions around the topic of geo-engineering ought to be happening now - in parallel with the technical research, if not ahead of it.

BBC: Science & Environment

Jeff Greenberg, a senior technical leader involved with the Ford research, says the broad goal is to minimize driver distraction and stress.

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By combining broad views of the future with technical skills, experience, and research, visioneers take speculative ideas out of the hands of sci-fi writers and technological forecasters and put them on firmer ground.

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Researchers at Nippon Hoso Kyokai are working with engineers at the Science and Technical Research Laboratories (STRL) to create an "optical disc recording system based on consumer Blu-ray disc technology that can spin as fast as 15, 000 RPM" without worry of a disc experiencing a complete meltdown and shattering within the drive.

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K. Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader for open innovation with Ford Research and Innovation, will travel from Michigan to the Bay Area regularly to organize the lab.

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Some of its rivals, such as Sweden's Ericsson, have already transferred all their mobile-telephone production to subcontractors rather than trying to keep up with the research and development spending and technical infrastructure needed to continue to make them on their own.

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The Organization also plans to strengthen institutional and technical capacities in the region with the support of the Regional Groundwater Training and Research Centre in Kenya, which operates under the auspices of UNESCO.

UNESCO: THEMES

The French version of the module was produced by the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) with financial support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and UNESCO.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Along with the usual technical imperatives involved in designing an oval movement, this timepiece incorporates the results of fundamental research by Breguet into the acoustics of chiming and repeating watches.

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