Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

Even the most comfortable and technologically advanced autonomous houses may require some differences in behavior.

The industrial sector is technologically backward, with most production of the cottage industry type.

In recent years and after several major reequipment programs, the Chilean Armed Forces have become one of the most technologically advanced and professional armed forces of South America.

This war paradigm reflected the view of most of the modernized world at the beginning of the 21st century, as verified by examination of the conventional armies of the time: large, high maintenance, technologically advanced armies designed to compete against similarly designed forces.

Technology plays an important role in student life, as Dartmouth has been ranked as one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the world ( as in Newsweeks 2004 ranking of " Hottest for the Tech-Savvy " and Yahoo!

J. R. R. Tolkien, in the legendarium surrounding his Elves, uses " Gnomes " as a name of the Noldor, the most gifted and technologically minded of his elvish races, in conscious exploitation of the similarity with gnomic ; Gnomes is thus Tolkien's English loan-translation of Quenya Noldor, " those with knowledge ".

From 600 AD until 1500 AD, China was the world's most technologically advanced society.

The five decades after the Second World War saw Finland turn from a war-ravaged agrarian society into one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, with a sophisticated market economy and high standard of living.

When the Second World War began, the Luftwaffe was one of most technologically advanced Air Forces in the world.

The service started as a test in November 2002 before it was launched in October 2003 and it's one of the most technologically advanced Internet services in the African continent.

* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.

Bujold ’ s father and brother were engineers, and many of the technological details she incorporates are based on 20th-century engineering situations, projected into null-g or alternative solar system situations ( this is especially true of Falling Free, the most technologically dense of the novels ).

The Peruvian Armed Forces is one of the most technologically advanced and professional armed forces of South America.

Somalia now offers some of the most technologically advanced and competitively priced telecommunications and internet services in the world.

Because of this, Wakanda is one of the world's most technologically advanced nations.

A key strategy was to refuse to connect its long distance network — technologically, by far the finest and most extensive in the land — with local independent carriers.

The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters ( DTM ) is considered to be one of the most technologically advanced racing series in the world, with cars that, underneath their body shells, are more purebred racing machines than most FIA-GT vehicles.

In the Ancient world, ships “ were among the most technologically complex mechanisms of the ancient world .” Ships made far-flung travel and trade more comfortable and economical, and they added a whole new facet to warfare.

With the Hague International Peace Conferences, representatives of the most powerful nations made an attempt to harmonize laws of war and to limit the use of technologically advanced weapons.

The Time Lords are considered one of the oldest and most technologically powerful races in the Doctor Who universe.

Opened in 2004, the Science Center contains one of the most technologically advanced planetariums in the United States.

Related to micelle formation is the technologically important ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil - water interfaces in such a manner that the polar ( or ionized ) end of the molecule is directed towards the aqueous phase and the hydrocarbon chain towards the oily phase.

Atactic polymers are technologically very important.

These people reside both in urban and rural areas, and are viewed as structurally irrelevant in our society as they neither produce nor consume what is considered important in a globalized and technologically connected world.

" The erudite, sardonic fictions of the Black Humorists introduced a generation of new fiction writers who saw themselves as sort of avant-avant-garde, not only cosmopolitan and polyglot but also technologically literate, products of more than just one region, heritage, and theory, and citizens of a culture that said its most important stuff about itself via mass media.

* The Cambridge economist Piero Sraffa returned to the classical economic meaning of " surplus ", but his concept differs from Marx's in at least three important ways: ( 1 ) The substance of Sraffa's surplus is not a claim on the surplus labour of others but a physical surplus, i. e. the value of physical output less the value of physical inputs used up to produce it, in abstraction from price changes ( roughly, like a " standard valuation " in national accounts ); ( 2 ) The magnitude of the surplus in Sraffa's model is exclusively technologically determined by the physical replacement requirements of the economy – and not by power or class relationships – so that the more efficient the economy becomes, the more surplus is created ; ( 3 ) The form of Sraffa's surplus includes both the gross profit component and the value of goods and services consumed by workers, so that the distribution of the physical surplus between capitalists and workers occurs after a fixed quantity of surplus has already been produced.

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

The Batcave of this film is also shown to be more technologically advanced than in the previous film, featuring more work stations and computers.

Aside from using elements of King's " The Lawnmower Man ", the film has several elements in common with the 1959 Daniel Keyes novel Flowers for Algernon, which also deals with a mentally disabled man whose intelligence is technologically boosted to genius levels.

Within two years they had become so successful that they were able to invest more than $ 100, 000 into new and technologically advanced production facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey, a place that was quickly becoming the film capital of America and home to many major film studios.

Silent comedy refers to a style of acting, related to but distinct from mime, invented to bring comedy into the medium of film in the silent film era ( 1900s – 1920s ) before a ( synchronized ) sound track on film was technologically practicable.

A self-taught filmmaker, Ferro first rose to prominence with such classic animations as the first color NBC Peacock and the Burlington Mills “ stitching ” logo, as well as technologically novel visual presentations, including the Singer Pavilion ’ s film at the 1964 New York World's Fair – the first time film projectors were used to create multiple-screen images.

He depicted it to have a similar impression of the working pod appearing in the new film The Abyss at that time directed by James Cameron The design made it ( or the SP-W03 space worker pot ) a clearly feasible technologically icon and an aeronautics expert involved in the Gundam Academy said that it is one of the items that should be pursued in reality.

Unlike the film, its sequels, and the 1974 live-action television series, which involved a primitive ape civilization, Return to the Planet of the Apes depicted a technologically advanced society, complete with automobiles, film, and television ; as such it more closely resembled both Boulle's original novel and early concepts for the first Apes movie which were changed due to budgetary limitations in the late 1960s.

The telephone system itself is highly developed and technologically advanced, with full automation in facilities that handle domestic and international telecom.

" Epipaleolithic " is a term used for the " final Upper Palaeolithic industries occurring at the end of the final glaciation which appear to merge technologically into the Mesolithic ".

The second cornerstone of the Fermi paradox is a rejoinder to the argument by scale: given intelligent life's ability to overcome scarcity, and its tendency to colonize new habitats, it seems likely that at least some civilizations would be technologically advanced, seek out new resources in space and then colonize first their own star system and subsequently the surrounding star systems.

In more technologically advanced areas, modern hashish is now made with more advanced technologies by compressing and / or refining or purifying a great quantity of trichomes harvested from Cannabis sativa plants using such processes as ice-water separation, also known as " bubble melt ", producing " bubble hash " or " water hash ".

Low-temperature mesomorphic behavior in general is technologically more useful, and alkyl terminal groups promote this.

The term " Mesolithic " is in competition with another term, " Epipaleolithic ", which means the " final Upper Palaeolithic industries occurring at the end of the final glaciation which appear to merge technologically into the Mesolithic ".

A major drawback is that unlike OxyContin ( oxycodone continuous release ), methadone is not technologically engineered for sustained release of the drug so blood concentrations will fluctuate greatly between dosing.

Bujold herself has commented that her posited system is neither technologically nor economically feasible, but is rather a convenience for storytelling.

These studies reveal that the result of extraterrestrial contact will be strongly governed by the benevolence or malevolence of an extraterrestrial civilization, how advanced it is technologically, and whether or not such a species sends robotic probes to contact humanity, as opposed to radio signals from a centralized source, as well as biological similarities and differences between humanity and the extraterrestrial species.

While it is possible to speak of a general ' stone age ' period for the whole of humanity, some groups never developed metal-smelting technology, so remained in a ' stone age ' until they encountered technologically developed cultures.

Additional digital exchanges are permitting a rapid increase in subscribers ; the construction of a network of technologically advanced intercity trunk lines, using both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay, is facilitating communication between urban centers.

The light emission of highly compressed noble gas is exploited technologically in the argon flash devices.

Another issue facing the field of particle physics is a need for more expensive and technologically advanced particle accelerators to test proposed theories ( for example, that the universe was caused by colliding membranes ).

* The development of a feasibility study, involving determining whether a project is economically, socially, technologically and organizationally feasible.