Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

This has been more evident since our products have incorporated astronomically increased technology.

There is no doubt that higher education since World War 2, has moved away from `` pure '' liberal education toward greater emphasis on technology and specialization.

He cited, as an example, how the American camera industry has been able to meet successfully the competition of Japan despite lower Japanese labor costs, by improving its production know-how and technology.

For general computer use access technology such as screen readers, screen magnifiers and refreshable Braille displays has been widely taken up along with standalone reading aids that integrate a scanner, optical character recognition ( OCR ) software, and speech software in a single machine.

GOTO telescopes have become more popular since the 1980s as technology has improved and prices have been reduced.

The agricultural sector has long-term needs for more investment and updated technology.

This can be attributed to progress in computing technology, which has allowed larger and more sophisticated models of atomic structure and associated collision processes.

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

For much of military history the manufacture of metal armour in Europe has dominated the technology and employment of armour.

The mandate of the commission was to determine how well the current Advantage program meets the needs of students, faculty, and staff and to examine how the role of technology in the postsecondary environment has changed at Acadia, and elsewhere.

This has changed with the closure of several manufacturers, and Albion's culture is changing to that of a college town with a strong interest in technology and sustainability issues.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

This cutting-edge technology has a promising potential of leading a new revolution in science as integrated circuits did in computer developments.

However, with the use of cre-lox technology, a caspase 8 knock-out has been created that exhibits an increase in peripheral T cells, an impaired T cell response, and a defect in neural tube closure.

* Special equipment for locating hostile artillery: flash spotting and notably sound ranging appeared in World War I the latter has been undergone increasing refinement as technology has improved.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

He has been honored with a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, a J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, a TED Prize ( named for the confluence of technology, entertainment and design ), and many other awards and honors.

Modern technology ( the internet and cheaper home printing ) has also influenced board games via the phenomenon of print-and-play board games that you buy and print yourself.

The service sector has grown quickly, stimulated by economic liberalization and fiscal reform, and the use of modern technology such as automobiles and computers has grown considerably as a result.

In 2008 the Brazilian minister of defense has formulated the " Estratégia Nacional de Defesa " ( National Defense Strategy ), that claims to build a strong national industry and make strategic partnerships with allied nations to develop technology together.

In 2008, Brazil has signed a strategic partnership with France and Russia to trade military technology.

The last few years have witnessed what have been perhaps the most rapid advances in military technology in history.

More complex assistive technology devices have been developed over time, and as a result, sports for people with disabilities " have changed from being a clinical therapeutic tool to an increasingly competition-oriented activity ".

This machine was built using materials and engineering tolerances that would have been available to Babbage, quelling the suggestion that Babbage's designs could not have been produced using the manufacturing technology of his time.

Oil and gas exports have been possible because of increasing pipeline technology.

The technology of the burning glass has been known since antiquity.

Similar technology may have been used in ancient Ireland ( the Liath Meisicith ) and quite possibly ancient Egypt.

Significant progress in Big Bang cosmology have been made since the late 1990s as a result of advances in telescope technology as well as the analysis of data from satellites such as COBE, the Hubble Space Telescope and WMAP.

The defining characteristic of the battle as a concept in Military science has been a dynamic one through the course of military history, changing with the changes in the organisation, employment and technology of military forces.

Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding and resources from the BBC and improvements in digital television technology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with two minute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Online and the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sport bulletins.

In science fiction, the impact of comets has been depicted as a threat overcome by technology and heroism ( Deep Impact, 1998 ), or as a trigger of global apocalypse ( Lucifer's Hammer, 1979 ) or of waves of zombies ( Night of the Comet, 1984 ).

Primarily, the term has been used to refer to the material and instrumental side of human cultures that are complex in terms of technology, science, and division of labor.

The whole system of advancements from beginning to end is called the technology tree, or simply the Tech tree ; this concept has been adopted in many other strategy games.

Whatever measures have been taken to reduce the privacy risk in census data, new technology in the form of better electronic analysis of data poses increasing challenges to the protection of sensitive individual information.

More recently, with the advent of personal computing, and the growth of home recording, the term computer music is now sometimes used to describe any music that has been created using computing technology.

The technology of code division multiple access channels has long been known.

The " COS " technology may have been too expensive since it was only used in a few models before Sharp reverted to conventional circuit boards.

Basic reference tools are the backbone of the collection, but there is also specialization in science and technology, an indicated weakness in local libraries.

* With the advent of the Web 2. 0, dynamic technology became widely accessible, and by the mid-1990s, PHP and MySQL became ( with Apache ) the backbone of many sites, making programming knowledge unnecessary to publish to the web.

A CAN, for example, may have a localised backbone of a WAN technology, which connects different LANs within a campus.

FDDI was considered an attractive campus backbone technology in the early to mid 1990s since existing Ethernet networks only offered 10 Mbit / s transfer speeds and Token Ring networks only offered 4 Mbit / s or 16 Mbit / s speeds.

A MAN usually interconnects a number of local area networks ( LANs ) using a high-capacity backbone technology, such as fiber-optical links, and provides up-link services to wide area networks ( or WAN ) and the Internet.

Japan's Internet backbone needs to be very efficient due to the high demand for the Internet and technology in general.

The technical backbone of the program is an online technology solution called The Aidmatrix Network which is managed by the independent nonprofit organization, Aidmatrix.

By using WDM and optical amplifiers, they can accommodate several generations of technology development in their optical infrastructure without having to overhaul the backbone network.

This technology provides one method for multiplexing bridge groups ( VLANs ) over a high-speed backbone.

It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of technology ( also known as technical colleges or polytechnics ).

The company rolled out digital telephone switching technology, across the country along with an extensive fibre optic and digital microwave backbone.

The project uses widely-available, license-free technology to create a free, locally-owned wireless backbone.

Packet repeaters, called digipeaters, form the backbone of the APRS system, and use store and forward technology to retransmit packets.

In 1996, the backbone of CARNet network was upgraded by introducing the ATM technology which enables real-time transfer of image and sound at the basic speed of 155 Mbit / s.

Integrated into the whole development will be an information technology backbone that will provide communications, networks, utilities, and other technology support facilities.

From the early days of radar ( Linesman and Mediator ), through the Cold War years of the Type 84 and Type 85 radars, until the present day, the squadron has been entrusted with bearing the torch for Boulmer and, in ensuring the sustainability of the units many assets finds itself at the very forefront of leading edge technology, which provides collectively the engineering backbone of the modern United Kingdom Air Surveillance and Control Systems.

It is a comprehensive university which specializes in engineering technology, sciences as backbone and develops humanities and social science as supplements.

The BSM program laid the foundation for the Enterprise Business System, which became the agency's technology backbone in 2007, after BSM was integrated throughout DLA's supply centers.

NETL ’ s short-term goals are to develop economically viable technologies for extracting as much as oil and gas from existing resources, and transferring this technology to the small and independent operators who are the backbone of the U. S. oil and gas industry.

On top of this, the THUS backbone network uses MPLS technology to deliver the highest possible performance.

SDH backbone is used to transport voice, data and video whereas VDSL technology is used as the access network to get customers connected to TransACT's high-speed broadband and digital TV services.

These uncovered mobile suits become the backbone of the Militia and allow to produce them in the war between it and the Moonrace, which has never lost its mobile suit technology, to proceed on a more even scale.

Fast EtherChannel technology enables aggregation of two full-duplex Fast Ethernet links for high-capacity backbone connections.