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.

Inside the body, artificial heart valves are in common use with artificial hearts and lungs seeing less common use but under active technology development.

On March 20, 2006, Borland announced its acquisition of Gauntlet Systems, a provider of technology that screens software under development for quality and security.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

AT & T Wireless first offered the technology in the United States under the PocketNet brand.

DBMS development is a complicated task, and some of the popular DBMSs have been under development and enhancement ( also to follow progress in technology ) for decades.

The study of semiconductor devices and related technology is considered a branch of solid state physics, whereas the design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems come under electronics engineering.

The evidence from the site shows advanced technology probably under the control of army engineers.

In Ricardo and other classical economists, this definition serves as a measure of " real cost ", " absolute value ", or a " measure of value " invariable under changes in distribution and technology.

The weak points of traditional styles had been under attack by progressive theorists since the mid-nineteenth century, primarily for the contradictions of hiding modern construction technology with a facade of ornamented traditional styles.

This forces Reed Richards to seize control of the country, attempting to pry the populace out from under the thumb of Doom, while at the same time disarming all of Doom's weaponry and technology, so if he ever returned, he would come back to absolutely nothing.

It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO / IEC Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) ( ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC29 / WG11 ) under the formal standard ISO / IEC 14496 – Coding of audio-visual objects.

This means that unlike P2P technology, the user's download speed is under his or her own control, as opposed to under the willingness of other people to share files.

While under his leadership Naval construction yards produced fewer ships than the 1970s, greater emphasis was placed on technology and qualitative improvement.

In 2001, WARF came under public pressure to widen access to human stem-cell technology.

Tools and machines need not be material ; virtual technology, such as computer software and business methods, fall under this definition of technology.

Microsoft licensed this technology back from Citrix and implemented it into Windows NT 4. 0 Terminal Server Edition, under a project codenamed " Hydra ".

Current medical technology does not allow an embryo to survive outside the uterus under any circumstances, or to be transplanted from the uterus of one woman to that of another.

In January 2012, the propulsion group for Project Icarus began a technology development project, known as Project Bifrost, under the auspices of Icarus Interstellar and General Propulsion Sciences, to develop an NTR propulsion system, initially aimed at interplanetary missions.

Applied capture of variances of light signal from the blood component hemoglobin under oxygenated vs. deoxygenated conditions allows the technology of pulse oximetry.

Nuclear technology was already under development in other countries.

The term cryostasis was introduced to name the reversible preservation technology for live biological objects which is based on using clathrate-forming gaseous substances under increased hydrostatic pressure and hypothermic temperatures.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.