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pace and technological
Within their confines, moreover, technological and industrial growth has proceeded at an accelerated pace, thus increasing the cornucopia from which material wants can be satisfied.
Juche repeated demands that North Koreans learn to build and innovate domestically had run its course as had the ability of North Koreans to keep technological pace with other industrialized nations.
Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.
As David Bordwell describes, technological improvements continued at a swift pace: " Between 1932 and 1935, Electric and RCA created directional microphones, increased the frequency range of film recording, reduced ground noise ... and extended the volume range.
Many of the traditional means of delivering information are being slowly superseded by the increasing pace of modern technological advance.
Only by differentiating the two levels of the educational process and making each as comprehensive as possible, could higher education hope to prepare students to cope with the rapid pace of technological, economic, and political change.
The turnpike and railroad were important technological advances affecting Topsfield history in the early and middle 19th century, but the pace of technological change picked up dramatically as that century came to a close.
The slow pace of technological development that ensued was in accordance with a more general trend in the country during the Communist period, which lasted until 1989.
To do this, the School provides high-level scientific and technological training, which is frequently updated to keep pace with changes in the leading edge technologies and supplemented by language, general culture, law and economics teaching.
They speculate that the global power elite are reactionary modernists pursuing a transhumanist agenda to develop and use human enhancement technologies in order to become a " posthuman ruling caste ", while change accelerates toward a technological singularity — a theorized future point of discontinuity when events will accelerate at such a pace that normal unenhanced humans will be unable to predict or even understand the rapid changes occurring in the world around them.
MOMI was acclaimed internationally and set new standards for education through entertainment, but subsequently it did not receive the high levels of continuing investment that might have enabled it to keep pace with technological developments and ever-rising audience expectations.
Kurzweil first defines the Singularity as a point in the future when technological advances begin to happen so rapidly that normal humans cannot keep pace, and are " cut out of the loop.
* industrial rationalization — the furious pace of major technological, financial, and economic reorganization that German industry underwent between 1924 and 1929.
In response to the ever-quickening pace of scientific and technological development of modern times, the concept of a three-level science and technology oriented school took root.
From the perspective of one family and spanning two generations the living conditions of the common man in Norway during the past 80 years is depicted, showing the tremendous pace with which an agrarian and proletarian society with its inherently rigid framework was transformed into a post-industrial, technological education and welfare society with a plethora of opportunities, however also presenting a newly created sense of identity for many of its citizens.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the pace of technological progress increased before and during the industrial revolution, most scientific and technological research was carried out by individual inventors using their own funds.
In her book Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 ( 1994 ), Saxenian proposes a hypothesis to explain why California's Silicon Valley was able to keep up with the fast pace of technological progress during the 1980s, while the vertically integrated firms of the Route 128 beltway fell behind.
The pizza delivery industry has kept pace with technological developments since the 1980s beginning with the rise of the personal computer.
* Adopt rules and regulations that keep pace with legislative, business, economic, social and technological changes.
The UAP has kept pace with technological innovations including digitization in the preparation of camera ready pages ; however, the UAP is a publishing house, not a printer.
Owing largely to poor leadership, archaic political norms, and an inability to keep pace with technological progress in Europe, the Ottoman Empire could not respond effectively to Europe's resurgence and gradually lost its position as a pre-eminent great power.

pace and change
The best course is to recover his physical excitement by a change of pace that makes him ardent again.
There are the full-bodied, resourceful voices of Robert Weede, Mimi Benzell and Tommy Rall to make the most of Mr. Herman's lilting melodies and, for an occasional change of pace, the bright humor of Molly Picon.
The rapid pace of change in the ironclad period meant that many ships were obsolete as soon as they were complete, and that naval tactics were in a state of flux.
The pace of change accelerated considerably in the following century, and women and men's fashion, especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair, became equally complex and changing.
In utilizing this approach, greater motivation is likely to result for both parties as the expert becomes the mentor and trainer and the cross-training team member finds learning new tasks to be an interesting change of pace.
He suggested that " we have to keep in mind the awesome pace of change and realise how little time is left to act, and then each community and nation must find the best use of the resources they have to sustain civilisation for as long as they can ".
Much of the effectiveness of the flipper is attributable to the " pop ", that is, the extra pace and change in trajectory that is imparted to the ball when it is squeezed out of the bowler's hand.
Ultimately though the New Left disintegrated, largely because members of the SDS dissatisfied with the pace of change, incorporated violent tendencies towards social transformation.
The pace of change, however, was sluggish ; the rehabilitation of Stalinist-era victims, such as those convicted in the Slánský trials, may have been considered as early as 1963, but did not take place until 1967.
In addition, the city ’ s colossal pace of change ( compared by some to that of Chicago ), had caused its chief planner, Martin Wagner ( 1885 – 1957 ), to foresee the entire centre being made over totally as often as every 25 years.
In the late nineties, while working on the design for the new headquarters for Universal ( currently Vivendi ), OMA was first exposed to the full pace of change that engulfed the world of media and with it the increasing importance of the virtual domain.
The pace of natural selection would depend on variability and change in the environment.
A rapid pace of change across the country, especially in growing cities, combined with new waves of immigration and migration of rural whites and blacks to cities, all contributed to a volatile social environment and the rise of a second Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ) in the South and Midwest after 1915.
However this was to change over the course of her life as the Tudor conquest of Ireland gathered pace.
Due to the rapid pace of change, by the late 1980s, grievances over inflation, limited career prospects for students, and corruption of the party elite were growing rapidly.
In 2009, Andrew Roger and Alastair Simpson emphasized the need for diligence in analyzing new discoveries: " With the current pace of change in our understanding of the eukaryote tree of life, we should proceed with caution.
The PPP also sought to implement its reform program at a rapid pace, which brought the party into confrontation with the governor and with high-ranking civil servants who preferred more gradual change.
* 1972 — Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed an idea they call " punctuated equilibrium ", which states that the fossil record is an accurate depiction of the pace of evolution, with long periods of " stasis " ( little change ) punctuated by brief periods of rapid change and species formation ( within a lineage ).
Adrien Begrand of PopMatters dismissed the original recording, but praised the re-release, writing " the album blazes on at a furious pace, and being a 1985 metal album, the subject matter, though now a bit dated, is such a refreshing change from the suburban angst that dominates today's nu-metal.
A change of pace about misfits on a Little League baseball team turned out to be a solid hit in 1976 when Matthau starred as coach Morris Buttermaker in the comedy The Bad News Bears
Hitchcock planned the film as a change of pace after his dark romantic thriller Vertigo a year earlier.
The pace of change has been modified somewhat in recent years by man-made barriers, such as dams on the Rhône and sea dykes, but flooding remains a problem across the region.

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