| 单词 | technology |
| 例句 | The complexity of a society’s technology has little to do with its level of social complexity—something that we, in our era of rapidly changing, seemingly overwhelming technology, have trouble grasping. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For historians of technology, the Phaistos disk is even more baffling; its estimated date of 1700 B.C. makes it by far the earliest printed document in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fight slogged on, requiring more people, more money, more planes and technology. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Could technology itself hold the key to helping us remain master over these powerful machines? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The clinic provides its patients with state-of-the-art medical technology, including a blood bank that serves much of the central plateau, and a sophisticated lab. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z War, technology, and social progress; it seemed that the second two always came with the first. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Societies with effective conflict resolution, sound decision making, and harmonious economic redistribution can develop better technology, concentrate their military power, seize larger and more productive territories, and crush autonomous smaller societies one by one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You there?” she asks, in that slightly loud way that older people have when they use a new technology. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z She had expected the letter writer to be a guy with a wild beard and unruly hair, like those men who lived in the woods and didn’t use technology. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In fact, this level of technology is, by its nature, at the same time highly sophisticated and profoundly primitive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A similar case occurred in 1939 when a group of engineers calling themselves the British Interplanetary Society designed a ship to take people to the Moon—using 1939 technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The destruction of Britain’s forests has been suggested as the reason behind its early lead in developing coal technology, but why didn’t deforestation have the same effect in China? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The clock radio in the room—the only thing in the room, other than our beds—was on, a piece of hand-me-down technology donated to the home from a Goodwill center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is this assumption that there are new discoveries to be made which has transformed the world, for it has made modern science and technology possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If not technology or the horse, what defeated the Inka? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This was another side of the technology revolution, big, big money. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Cayley is a minor but not insignificant figure in the history of science and technology; but there is no doubt that our sense of his significance derives entirely from hindsight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was Syn- Optics Communications, which was among the pioneers in creating technology to allow for faster, more efficient delivery of data over Ethernet lines. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As for the difficulties, even this apparently simple procedure taxed the primitive measuring technologies of the period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of agriculture, metallurgy, complex technology, centralized government, and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The new science was thus dependent on a few key technologies which functioned, to use Elizabeth Eisenstein’s phrase, as ‘agents of change’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Lacking such technology, Atahuallpa did not expand overseas out of South America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And the dramatic advances in technology in the twentieth century affected popular and classical music in very different ways. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But whether the future of nuclear technology lay in war or peace, dispersing an effective team of experienced researchers and leaving them without financial support would be a foolhardy course for the government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That’s not surprising, since Neanderthals apparently lacked needles, sewn clothing, warm houses, and other technology essential to survival in the coldest climates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s position as doyen of the Rad Lab and Teller’s as the indispensable genius of thermonuclear technology made compromise impossible. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the United States the FBI, which often has to extract DNA in criminal cases, considers the test, when done with the latest technology, infallible. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The remaining area of technology to be mentioned is sea transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many issues raised at Lawrence’s briefings resulted from the decision to begin construction of Y-12 before the central technology was perfected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Toward the end of our conversation, Hsu mentioned that she could learn much more from testing the family’s blood today, since DNA technology had advanced so much since the seventies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Among them is Daphne Bavelier, a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester, who has been one of the pioneers in trying to understand how technology could be used to expand and improve attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There was a huge digital clock on the wall of the dining hall, bought sometime in the seventies as the latest in technology and never replaced, even though it was older than Conor’s mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z That is how all of this connects to technology, and how we use it in our daily lives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Its emergence was accompanied by the development of a new stone tool technology, now recognised as a defining feature of this species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The motion had to do with what was going on inside Reggie’s mind, and it raised fascinating questions about the collision of technology, science, and law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Any technology able to detect radiation of any wavelength would fairly soon stumble on the radio part of the spectrum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In his vision, he’d prove that the game worked by using imaging technology to show improvements inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Okay, so sometimes technology did come in handy, but he wouldn’t be telling Foaly that. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers’ outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By enabling farmers to generate food surpluses, food production permitted farming societies to support full-time craft specialists who did not grow their own food and who developed technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And there wasn’t really a thought that technology—in a general sense—could distract people on an everyday basis. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z People who have made fortunes from technology—Microsoft, PayPal, Amazon, and Google—are taking the vision that led to their successes and translating it into developing rockets and spaceships. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z What is their form, biochemistry, neurobiology, history, politics, science, technology, art, music, religion, philosophy? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had the technology to travel the universe and draw out my memories; surely, they could have returned me to Earth fully dressed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We feel somehow inferior and left out of things by all the marvelous sensory technology in the creatures around us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That meant one should use the simplest, least expensive technology to complete a job. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But still, for Twelves, though they had begun their adult training, there were the endless lists of rules to be memorized and the newest technology to be mastered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Depending on their geographic location, societies differ in how readily they can receive technology by diffusion from other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As Dr. Atchley tries to find balance with technology and prevent it from overtaking him, he finds there are occasions when his boundaries don’t serve him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z New technologies were developed, making it possible for a single still to create as many as 130 gallons of whiskey a day. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Science—the research programme, the experimental method, the interlocking of pure science and new technology, the language of defeasible knowledge—was invented between 1571 and 1704. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bentley is thus an advocate of the Thomas thesis: an improved technology for dealing with disease, combined with better scientific knowledge, undermined belief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In addition, peoples who until recently were technologically primitive—such as Aboriginal Australians and New Guineans—routinely master industrial technologies when given opportunities to do so. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Reggie’s case, it’s impossible to conclusively say he was addicted to technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Reggie's own adoption of technology very much paralleled what was happening around the country, a phenomenon documented in a series of pioneering studies initiated by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 1999. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In the 1960s, however, interest in the large-scale problems of astronomy and cosmology was revived by a great increase in the number and range of astronomical observations brought about by the application of modern technology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pizarro came to Cajamarca by means of European maritime technology, which built the ships that took him across the Atlantic from Spain to Panama, and then in the Pacific from Panama to Peru. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their every secret would be laid bare by technology. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z His mind craved to know what kind of technology could be behind it all. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z On July 3, 1908, archaeologists excavating the ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Atchley used a basic premise: He theorized that if technology was like an addictive substance, say, alcohol, then users would find the information delivered on a device as irresistible as alcoholics do booze. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z During those same centuries China led the world in technology, having launched itself on food production nearly as early as the Fertile Crescent did. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I thought someone should just give them the technology and let them get on with it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it has something to do with Dauntless priorities: training comes first, technology comes second. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Still, many experts have concluded that Garfield's wound was not necessarily fatal, even given the limits of 1881 medical technology and knowledge. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The primary danger to the whales is a newcomer, an upstart animal, only recently, through technology, become competent in the oceans, a creature that calls itself human. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence, all other things being equal, technology develops fastest in large productive regions with large human populations, many potential inventors, and many competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even those few Australians got to see only a fraction of Macassan culture and technology, rather than a full Macassan society with rice fields, pigs, villages, and workshops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he says that increasingly technology is appealing to and preying upon deep primitive instincts, parts of us that existed aeons before the phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She doesn’t care about the technology—she suspects that something is awry with my test results. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z That’s why settlements, and by inference tribes, began to proliferate in the Fertile Crescent at that time, when climate changes and improved technology combined to permit abundant harvests of wild cereals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, a neighboring highland people with whom I worked for eight years, the Daribi, are especially conservative and uninterested in new technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People spoke of women’s rights and modern technology. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Other major features of North Chinese societies that spread southward were bronze technology, Sino-Tibetan languages, and state formation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On every other continent as well, certain native societies have proved very receptive, adopted foreign ways and technology selectively, and integrated them successfully into their own society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nowadays, Islamic societies in the Middle East are relatively conservative and not at the forefront of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Telling the time accurately was, of course, another big problem in the 1560s, long before the development of accurate clocks—one of the many examples of the interdependence of science and technology. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the meeting, he made a few points: This technology is new, and it’s not fair to assume Reggie should’ve known better, at least in a way that satisfies the standard of criminal negligence. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z First came the science, then came the technology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the Harvard School of Public Health, Farmer had gotten used to hearing that public health problems should be solved with “appropriate technology.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He wrote, “There is virtually no case law whatsoever in the entire United States that has addressed it. The technology is just too new.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Its committees have grappled with the question of technology addiction but haven’t made it an official diagnosis. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For Dr. Atchley, who’s doing some of the foremost research in the field, the questions suggest he’s awoken from his own blind faith in technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Sadly, much of our technology, while it may be good for us, is not so good for the environment. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Reggie’s story, in the end, isn’t just warning us not to use technology behind the wheel. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps, if the technology can be adapted to it, we should send some paintings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul’s own at-home technology was relegated to a black-and-white television he had in his room, and on which he watched local channels and monster movies. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new technologies and the settlement of alien habitats resulted from genetic mutations and environmental pressures more than from cultural initiatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Continental differences in axis orientation affected the diffusion not only of food production but also of other technologies and inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The technology allowed researchers to examine finer slices of the neurological networks, their sum and their parts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It is easy to say that our world has been made by science or by technology, but scientific and technological progress depend on a pre-existing assumption, the assumption that there are discoveries to be made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” Farmer replied, “but why do you qualify my talk as provocative? I just said we should treat sick people, if we have the technology.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Artemis believed that with today's technology the Book could be translated. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Thanks to my complete lack of office skills, I found it fairly easy to avoid direct contact with the new technology. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All the settlers of Australia had at their disposal was Stone Age technology. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The convergence of technology, science, and medicine was on display everywhere you looked. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Of course our world changes when we introduce a new technology, or go somewhere we have never been before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is not, however, a technology in any real sense, since it does not involve measures directed at the underlying mechanism of disease. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The stone technology of the Tasmanians, when first encountered by European explorers in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some are technologies, for instance the steam engine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Once you pushed it, the hover ladder randomly flitted in front of the shelves, using advanced biofeedback technology, heart-rate monitors, and complex algorithms to figure out what sort of story you might be interested in. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Like a lot of new technology, it skewed toward the young. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Third, what about Eurasians’ head start in developing locally appropriate technology? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is maybe the most far-reaching implication of the powerful lure of our technology: If it co-opts our attention, it could reshape our sense of reality. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Those who think that modern science derives from the empirical experimental enquiries of craftsmen and artisans need to account for the extraordinarily slow evolution of water-wheel technology prior to the introduction of Smeaton’s scientific method. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He swore that all the technology in the world wouldn’t save a sailor if he didn’t use his head and know his ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Also, even though technology is not classified as “addictive,” some neuroscience points to stark similarities between how technology use and drug use trigger chemical release in the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As the technology evolved, it had almost competing roles. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He also chaired the Science Advisory Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization, a successor to the technology committees organized by Vannevar Bush during the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We don’t change the technology, we change us? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What does all the evidence about the powerful lure of personal communications technology add up to? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Our technology is, so far, utterly incapable of such grand interstellar voyages, at least in reasonable transit times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is true, but all the more reason for expecting optimal use to be made of the full range of medicine’s technology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This discussion does not exhaust the list of reasons proposed to explain why societies differ in their receptivity to new technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It was naive on my part. Still to this day, I’m surprised by how addictive and how alluring the technology is.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Through the 1990s, they got smaller and cheaper, and service got better until 1998, when the technology hit a Tipping Point and suddenly everyone had a cell phone. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme, some aboriginal fishing groups of southeastern Australia devised elaborate technologies for managing fish populations, including the construction of canals, weirs, and standing traps. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “He does odd jobs. And he’s an entrepreneur. He’s developing a technology to burn low-grade bituminous coal safely and efficiently.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be a fool, human. You’re deluding yourself. Mud technology is eons behind ours. There is no way to escape the time-field.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Just as Lawrence had warned Sproul that the cyclotron diaspora was bound to end Berkeley’s monopoly on cheap grad-student labor, it was now ending Berkeleys monopoly on cyclotron technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A couple million years of evolution gave me "warm-blooded" technology. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z So we’re forced to indulge in an underground market of technology and inventions to help better ourselves. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z Ernie and Merle became steadily more enthralled with electronics, especially the emerging technology of radio transmission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sedentary living was decisive for the history of technology, because it enabled people to accumulate nonportable possessions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Elellenistic advances in science and technology are, of course, the substance of this book. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Especially after such a long time since they’d seen any signs of advanced technology. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Secretary LaHood, tall and genial, a former Illinois congressman, had begun focusing himself, and his agency, on the issue of preventable traffic fatalities, especially those caused by use of technology by drivers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If one were only a little behind us—10,000 years, say—it would have no advanced technology at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the cost of that kind of technology, and its relative effectiveness, that must be compared with the cost and effectiveness of the vaccine. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Your brain is creating an entire reality for you, without needing any piece of technology. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z These examples, at first so bizarre to us, illustrate well the roles of geography and of diffusion in the history of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He laughed out loud, as if it were a fabulous technology. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I have nothing against a well-defined mutant or full-scale alien invasion—that's good technology. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In the nineteenth century, the technology became available to construct a suspension bridge across the river. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That kind of technology was still in its infancy, but Riverbank was known for its acoustic engineers and inventions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This idea has been strong enough to launch the new movements for the sustenance of wilderness, the protection of wildlife, the turning off of insatiable technologies, the preservation of “whole earth.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, but apparently you do! I know this because last night at dinner we were treated by Hugh to a fascinating disquisition on the wonders of twenty-first-century telecommunications technology.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Her mother told her not to worry and launched into a diatribe about the medical technologies of the seventies until Alma interrupted her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Neal had hit it big in the technology field, really big. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He needed to dig deeper to understand where the lure of technology fit on this continuum. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Without him, human technology could very easily catch up with the fairy brand. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z One reason why technology tends to catalyze itself is that advances depend upon previous mastery of simpler problems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Right...but I’m really more interested in their technology program,” Dimple said, forcing herself to stay polite. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They will know that a backward civilization like ours, wishing to receive messages from the skies, is likely to turn first to radio technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a crop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Rather than being the timeless indigenous adaptation portrayed in ecology textbooks, many archaeologists now view slash-and-burn agriculture as a relatively modern technique whose spread was driven by European technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But as the technology of murder improves and the penalties of war increase, a great many people must be made to fly into murderous rages simultaneously for a major war to be mustered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “No matter what you believe, there’s a technology out there for you.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z From the moment Mr. Carter hired him and placed him in charge of operations, the Captain began to implement the latest in mining technology. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the Phaistos disk’s printing technology was much clumsier, and offered fewer advantages over writing by hand, than Gutenberg’s printing press. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It makes sense, then, that the construction of small and mediumsized hydroelectric plants—capable of serving local industry and built mostly by hand, using basic technology—has been a priority since the 1990s. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In addition, as we’ve seen in this chapter, local technology depends, for both its origin and its maintenance, not only on local invention but also on the diffusion of technology from elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On a mostly separate track, there were also major advances in com-munications technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z This is partly due to the space-age technology used to pack them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Thankfully, demigods didn’t use a lot of technology at camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I should not be surprised—the Amity spend their lives accomplishing feats of agriculture like this one, with the help of Erudite technology. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z What is much more important than human genius is the development of technology, and it is no surprise that the start of the scientific revolution ‘coincides’ with the development of the telescope and the microscope. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Their work had focused on aviation; after all, airplane cockpits were the place where human beings were most acutely confronted with new technologies, powerful ones that taxed our neurological limitations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Back in Utah, Dr. Strayer and a colleague named Jason Watson had been using advanced technologies like the MRI to look at attention from inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Just as this is not a book about technology, I do not intend to dwell on the strictly medical implications of the investigation of the human body. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Finally, food production permits or requires people to adopt sedentary living, which is a prerequisite for accumulating substantial possessions, developing elaborate technology and crafts, and constructing public works. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The third type of technology is the kind that is so effective that it seems to attract the least public notice; it has come to be taken for granted. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All humans presumably did so too, until improved technology for extracting food allowed some hunter-gatherers to settle in permanent dwellings in some resource-rich areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Amidst the recriminations and finger-pointing from the doctors, scientists, and prison officials, one might have expected the demise of electrocution technology. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As is so often the case in science, the new developments went hand in hand with new developments in technology. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “There’s all kind of technology out there,” Wanda said, leaning forward. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Babou had just got his new phone. He needed me to help him with it. Babou is not very good with technology.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z As the six million visitors to London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 were prophetically promised, the future was about two things: technology and the world beyond Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The improvement of sailing ships encouraged technology of all kinds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So we lay to rest the wide-eyed wonder we once thrived upon, replacing it with scars of which we never speak, too knotted for any amount of technology to repair. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z We have powerful defense mechanisms—personal prejudice, shame, societal messages, and, yes, technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He said he was American and so reserved the right to flagrant displays of technology. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Both began as practical technologies and became scientific instruments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That preparation was critical as she put the abstract three-dimensional Cartesian plane to use in the service of the space technology lectures, which were eventually compiled in written form. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some inventor finally comes up with a solution superior to the existing, unsatisfactory technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For all societies except the few past ones that were completely isolated, much or most new technology is not invented locally but is instead borrowed from other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People didn’t stop using the technology, because they couldn’t. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His thoughts turned to linear acceleration, the technology that Lawrence had been developing with David Sloan at Berkeley until the cyclotron demonstrated its superiority in 1931. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The spread of writing has occurred by either of two contrasting methods, which find parallels throughout the history of technology and ideas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A new technology called television was on exhibit in the village office. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z These skills included Cordon Bleu cooking, marksmanship, a customized blend of martial arts, emergency medicine, and information technology. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Discoveries in mechanics and steam technology were applied mainly to the perfection of weapons, the encouragement of superstition, the amusement of kings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Today we take this simplified browser technology for granted, but it was actually one of the most important inventions in modern history. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The magic trick also hints at why technology plays so powerfully to our brains, and our attention systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Each of them was gaining notoriety for understanding how heavy technology use—multitasking—impacted the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We are safe, well ventilated, and incubated, provided we can avoid technologies that might fiddle with that ozone, or shift the levels of carbon dioxide. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the moment of discovery, the vaunted technology has produced something astonishing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So while cartography and navigational instruments taken in isolation are neutral devices, in practice they are part of a package of technologies that ensured Western global dominance for five hundred years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He thinks certain modern technologies—the clock, the compass, gunpowder, the telescope—represent a real advance over anything achieved by the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Africa’s north-south axis posed a further obstacle to the diffusion of technology, both between Eurasia and sub-Saharan Africa and within the sub-Saharan region itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Radio technology permits that message to be inconceivably rich. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers tend to breathe out nastier germs, to own better weapons and armor, to own more-powerful technology in general, and to live under centralized governments with literate elites better able to wage wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But technology kept evolving, and I kept reinvesting in the business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z About two hundred neuroscientists gathered with support from the National Academy of Sciences to confront a new question: What is technology doing to our brains? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Was there anything about India’s environment predisposing toward rigid socioeconomic castes, with grave consequences for the development of technology in India? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, it also befell the stubborn, conservative Greenland Norse farmers, replaced by Eskimo hunter-gatherers whose subsistence methods and technology were far superior to those of the Norse under Greenland conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He moves on to the technology of brain scans, what he and his team have learned just from my experience and the implications for future patients facing similar problems. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z For instance, the enormous investments made in nuclear weapons during World War II and in airplanes and trucks during World War I launched whole new fields of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the public mind, this kind of technology has come to seem like the equivalent of the high technologies of the physical sciences. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, technologies must be not only acquired but also maintained, and that too depends on many unpredictable factors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Evolution occurred in scientific progress as it happened in nature: a positive trait was passed along, then proliferated; obsolete characteristics withered away, and the technology and the organization evolved into something new. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Within the ranks of his arcane field—an advanced technology called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR—he is an eminence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The less immense, more finite items, of a size allowing the mind to get a handhold, like nations, or space technology, or New York, are hard to think about without drifting toward heartsink. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It means that someone has learned to live with high technology; that it is possible to survive technological adolescence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our former technical sciences professor, Dr. Hauptmann, has called our attention to the discrepancy. He has arranged that you will be sent to a special technology division of the Wehrmacht.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They used eye-tracking technology to study where a driver was looking, say, at the road or at the phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Several decades later, borrowing from this technology, Henry Ford credited the meatpackers for the idea that led to the invention of the automobile assembly line. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Computers and communications technology commingling with open spaces. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I once attended a lecture on biology addressed to a large general audience at a conference on technology, entertainment, and design. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If you flew your technology-based starship into a zone where technology didn’t function, your engines would fail the moment you crossed the zone border. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Thus, in principle, belief in magic ought to decline with improvements in technology, particularly medicine, and the beginnings of insurance policies and other methods of reducing the impact of unforeseen disasters. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mom loves technology, always embracing the next new thing. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z In recent years the digitization technology evolved so I could do just that. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The other main reason for autocatalysis is that new technologies and materials make it possible to generate still other new technologies by recombination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At Jesse’s suggestion, I visited a giant bar code site where geeks gathered on weekends to talk about bar code technology. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as in their encounter with Native Americans, Europeans entering Africa enjoyed the triple advantage of guns and other technology, widespread literacy, and the political organization necessary to sustain expensive programs of exploration and conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because technology begets more technology, the importance of an invention’s diffusion potentially exceeds the importance of the original invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the coast of North America lay effectively beyond the reach of ships sailing directly from Norway itself, given Norse ship technology of the period A.D. 986-1410. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What’s happening today with technology, he argues, is comparable to what happened in the seventies with drugs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All these effects that continental differences in area, population, ease of diffusion, and onset of food production exerted on the rise of technology became exaggerated, because technology catalyzes itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, too, part of the reason for states’ triumphs over simpler entities when the two collide is that states usually enjoy an advantage of weaponry and other technology, and a large numerical advantage in population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The place was packed. He’s a very famous technology prophet. His TED Talk, ‘Our Brilliant Tomorrow,’ has been watched nearly two million times online.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z As a result, in the very long run, technology may have developed most rapidly in regions with moderate connectedness, neither too high nor too low. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He accused certain governments, pharmaceutical companies, and public health policies of favoring the “maldistribution of medical technologies.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z An impeccably groomed and proper San Francisco lawyer with extensive connections on Wall Street and in Washington, Gaither was a habitue of the worlds of finance and of technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Space Race began soon after the Allies won World War II. America and the former Soviet Union inherited and made use of German technology, specifically rocket technology. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese were so impressed by the new weapon that they commenced indigenous gun production, greatly improved gun technology, and by A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The formidable advance of science and technology in Wagner’s time, instead of making people confident and liberated, made them fearful and vulnerable, ripe for exploitation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Is one of those things personal communications technology? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "All our booster technology is classified information. The Ministry of State Security even spreads disinformation about our capabilities. This is for obvious reasons." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, millet cultivation, bronze technology, and writing arose in North China, while rice cultivation and cast-iron technology emerged in South China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That practical difficulty probably explains the tantalizingly early appearance of some technologies, followed by a long delay in their further development. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For pop, broadcast technology stimulated a thirst for new sounds and new voices that proliferated vigorously across the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The outcome was that musket technology had spread throughout the whole of New Zealand by 1833: all surviving Maori tribes now had muskets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dual zones permitted the use of both magic and technology, and null zones didn’t allow either. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the twenty-first century, technology can be compared to food. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "He was to jab himself with this poison pin," Khrushchev proclaimed, "which would have killed him instantly. What barbarism! Here it is, the latest achievement of American technology for killing their own people!" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But “standard” by then included some remarkable safety technology, like an antilock braking system, which allowed for swifter stoppage time and had first been developed in the 1960s. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The United States and Britain could not hope to keep a monopoly on nuclear technology for more than a few years, they warned. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first and most obvious factor is relative economic advantage compared with existing technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ones that do adopt new crops, livestock, or technology may thereby be enabled to nourish themselves better and to outbreed, displace, conquer, or kill off societies resisting innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sapiens were more proficient hunters and gatherers—thanks to better technology and superior social skills—so they multiplied and spread. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As our technology improved, the means of war also improved. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That has happened in recent years around the field of attention, particularly the study of attention and its relationship to technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and China were heirs to the technology that behaviorially modern Homo sapiens had been developing to exploit local resources in those areas for tens of thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You’re armed with gadgets, thin shards of metal that perform outrageous feats of technology and assault. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “My Instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works,” Jonas told him eagerly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Hence the next four chapters will explore how the ultimate cause of food production led to the proximate causes of germs, literacy, technology, and centralized government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When societies do adopt a new technology from the society that invented it, the diffusion may occur in many different contexts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Does the history of technology depend on nothing more than accidents of the birthplaces of a few inventors? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And much of the gain owed to technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Blueprints may be kept secret, or they may be unreadable to someone not already steeped in the technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Offhand, I cannot think of any important human disease for which medicine possesses the outright capacity to prevent or cure where the cost of the technology is itself a major problem. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He held top sales jobs at four different technology companies that were ultimately sold or went public for more than a billion dollars each. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He’s the director of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, one of the first places in the world to treat technology addiction as a medical disorder. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z These comparisons suggest that geographic connectedness has exerted both positive and negative effects on the evolution of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "He wanted to create fragrances. We Arabs invented the perfume-making technology, you know. Distillation, steam extraction from flower petals. He kept a kit back at the deli." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z To a certain degree, if the world is orderly and predictable, it is because we have worked to make it so by developing technologies that give us control over nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their science and technology would be far beyond ours. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All the research by Dr. Atchley and many others have illuminated the idea that this new technology plays to our deepest human needs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As a result we tend to overestimate the importance of new technology and underestimate the rate of production and the impact of new intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Well, technology is supposed to make life better,” she says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z These conclusions surely apply with much greater force to the undocumented history of ancient technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I hate all this technology on the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But the technology issues were no longer just in the cockpit, affecting only pilots, they were everywhere. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Innumerable such technologies were either not adopted at all or adopted only after prolonged resistance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The contestants included RCA, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and General Electric, all seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission for mutually incompatible technologies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z No artifact of human technology, not even our radio transmissions, has had time, even traveling at the speed of light, to go 200 light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For many others, particularly since technology has gotten more powerful, the signs of compulsion are even stronger. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I am merely concerned for the competence of our technology. If it fails while you are around, I have to ensure that it does not continue to do so, you understand?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Magnetic anchors,” mused Kether, wondering how he might appropriate the technology for his own engine designs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Who do you think provided him with the technology to fake your death?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z "The craftsmanship and the technology that went into making the lens assembly was something that may never be repeated," Saxe later commented. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the biggest game changers, however, was a new technology that seemed relatively harmless: radio. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A few years later the Japanese company incorporated elements of Lawrence’s design into one of the most successful color TV technologies in history, a product it named Trinitron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This sharpened the feelings in the physics community and among the program’s civilian leadership that discussions about the deployment of the bomb and postwar management of its technology should be urgently stepped up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In doing so he inherited some of the most advanced theories and some of the most sophisticated technology produced in the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Indeed, not only in astronomy but in other realms of inquiry, notably mechanical technology and medicine, the ancients seem almost perverse in their aversion to stumbling on the truth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It compares technology to the immune system, which is, of course, crucial for survival. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In addition to their germs and technology, Eurasian and Native American societies differed in their political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The daily newspapers provided stories, but they didn't yet have the technology to print photographs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They say: There’s no proof of increasing tolerance levels to technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But Langley was a conclave of the worlds best aerodynamicists, the leading edge of the technology that was transforming not only the nature of war but civilian transportation and the economy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The fluid in the syringe is silver-gray, like fish scales, and as it flows into me through the needle, I imagine the microscopic technology chewing through my body, reading me and analyzing me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There was no more “new and improved,” there was just the trick of different—new styles, and advertisements to convince that stylishness was all the rage—but the basic technology remained exactly the same. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He arrived at the Rad Lab skeptical about electromagnetic separation, having been convinced of the superiority of gaseous diffusion by his technical advisors, who came from a petroleum industry familiar with that technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Both are employed in European technology, but the former is more common—the arch is a classic example of compression. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was also clear that the topic of distracted driving went well beyond the accessibility of technology in cars. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The university had a reputation for spawning world-class scientists exploring how to optimize use of technology in airplanes and in the military, in the tradition of Broadbent and Dr. Treisman. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He says the Khmer Rouge government views science, technology, and anything mechanical as evil and therefore must be destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting information of value seems to explain some of the powerful lure of technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But he remembered from his science and technology studies at school that the search planes used heat-seeking devices which could identify body warmth and would home in on two humans huddled in shrubbery. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s campaign to add a nuclear reactor to Berkeley’s arsenal of atom-smashing technologies dated back to his wartime effort to wrest Enrico Fermi’s nuclear pile away from Arthur Compton and the University of Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Gold’s Soviet contact, known to Gold only as “Fred,” told Gold to get a job at a weapons factory—someplace with technology worth stealing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, each society on a continent represents one more opportunity to invent and adopt a technology, because societies vary greatly in their innovativeness for many separate reasons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One might hope therefore that as we advance in science and technology, we would eventually manage to build a time machine. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were probably using their alien technology to spy on me, laughing their eyestalks off. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For instance, the stone sickles, underground storage pits, and other technology that hunter-gatherers of the Fertile Crescent had been evolving to utilize wild cereals were available to the first cereal farmers of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That is, inventions supposedly arise when a society has an unfulfilled need: some technology is widely recognized to be unsatisfactory or limiting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A political unit’s population size interacted with its population density to influence Polynesian technology and economic, social, and political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the Middle Ages the flow of technology was overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe, rather than from Europe to Islam as it is today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The great contemporary achievement of modern medicine is the technology for controlling and preventing bacterial infection, but this did not fall into our laps with the appearance of penicillin and the sulfonamides. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The article seemed straightforward enough, detailing how Google had managed to hire legendary technologist Louis Monier away from eBay, where he was heading advanced technology. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Five areas of technology may be singled out: First, metals—initially copper, then bronze, and finally iron—were used for tools in all complex Eurasian societies as of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Opera singers do not use microphones or any type of amplification technology. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Gambling on Warcross is illegal in the United States; it’s one of the many laws the government has recently passed in a desperate attempt to keep up with technology and cybercrime. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z According to proponents, when the technology is perfected and extended it will surely lead to new possibilities for therapy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Scientists are using technology her cells helped develop to grow other people’s corneas.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On closer examination, it merely proves to reflect the ubiquitous role of geography in the transmission of human culture and technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Infosys is one of the jewels of the Indian information technology world, and Nilekani, tire company’s CEO, is one of the most thoughtful and respected captains of Indian industry. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Rivaling germs as proximate factors behind Europe’s conquest of the Americas were the differences in all aspects of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Such spreads of technology and agriculture, arising ultimately from competition between human groups, must have happened at innumerable other times and places over the past 10,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As fantastic as the technology was, no one wanted to be crushed like a bug if it went haywire. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z One reason things were changing so much owed to a familiar technology maxim called Moore’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z This time he extolled the English, filling Massasoit’s ears with tales of their cities, their great numbers, their powerful technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Eventually they succeeded, but by the time they did, Van de GraafFs technology had been outrun by something entirely new. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z My examples so far have been drawn from modern technologies, because their histories are well known. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These new technologies could change the materials and means that shape the human environment. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, what the hotel offered in charm and serenity, it lacked in modem technology, such as in-room Internet connections. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z We tend to assume that useful technologies, once acquired, inevitably persist until superseded by better ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some apparent regional or continentwide regressions of technology in Australia may stem from the isolation and relatively few inhabitants of its population centers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition to comparing digital technology to food, there is another compelling analogy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Thomas Kuhn thought that science and technology were antithetical to each other, at least until the 1870s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I find the place with no trouble, delighted that the city and my map are in such perfect agreement, and spend an hour with one of my hosts absorbing cockatiel technology. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The People of the First Light could avoid or adapt to European technology but not European disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Our dads had worked together at this large company called Harris that helps make defense and space technology. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z While on this latest tour, he explains, he had a cool experience related to technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z ‘Abu had to go out and get a PC and a dial-up modem. The skeptics all said, ‘It takes people a long time to change their habits and learn a new technology.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Maybe, he thought, technology creates more of a compulsion than an addiction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I try not to bring unnecessary technology onto the property,” he continued, dipping the wand again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z One of the reasons the Globe was such a hip, exclusive club was because it was located in a PvP zone, one where both magic and technology functioned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the latter half of the century, as technology moved from the military and corporate settings into our businesses and homes, the devices grew masterful at capturing our attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But the technology that allowed us to explore and inhabit the most remote regions of the Earth now permits us to leave our planet, to venture into space, to explore other worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I even explained the origins of the term “geek,” how so many of them, once destined to be marginalized outcasts, were using technology to alter their fates, change their destinies, build a new culture. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Indians who adopted it were setting aside millennia of tradition in favor of a new technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The experiments use video game technology to challenge people to distribute attention, then use imaging to measure brain activity during the task. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At Geneva, there were no residual hard feelings; Lawrence and Veksler shared a friendly dinner at the city’s finest French restaurant, comparing notes on the technologies that had made their careers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Because TB was largely concentrated in poor countries, the industrial nations and pharmaceutical companies had all but abandoned the search for new technologies to fight MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Scientists were putting new technology to work to understand the capacities and limits of the human brain at the very moment that technology was putting those limits into sharp relief. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Besides, Jesse had absolute confidence in his computing skills, in his technology. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Bush and Conant had proposed something of the sort to Stimson in September 1944: “complete disclosure” of the technology, omitting manufacturing and military details, “as soon as the first bomb has been demonstrated.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If inventions are as idiosyncratic and unpredictable as the disk seems to suggest, then efforts to generalize about the history of technology may be doomed from the outset. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And thanks at least in part to those technologies, we’re seeing the tentative spread of democratic institutions in areas that have lived for years under dictatorships or near-dictatorships. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Living in the twenty-first century gives a person a much better prognosis for treatment, but sometimes I wish I’d lived in an age before technology. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Without the simulation technology, without the data they had about all the other factions, without their focus on technological advancement, the attack on Abnegation would not have happened. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It is a characteristic of this kind of technology that it costs an enormous amount of money and requires a continuing expansion of hospital facilities. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Put another way, technology was evolving by the day, but the human brain was more or less staying put. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In early April, Killian reported to Eisenhower and Dulles the conclusion of his experts that test ban violations could be detected with existing technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All sorts of revolutionary changes in technology are postulated for the future, ranging from final control of human disease to solutions of the world food and population problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Friendly Connect is also donating ten thousand dollars’ worth of new technology to the school,” Tracey continued. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z And while you may not require technology to survive in the same way as food, our cultural and social lives require it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If patent rights, capitalism, and certain religions do promote technology, what selected for those factors in postmedieval Europe but not in contemporary China or India? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This has been, all along, what most excites Dr. Gazzaley—not just the hunt to understand attention, and technology’s impact on it, but the effort to expand it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For five days, girls in fourth grade through seventh grade from all over Brevard County learned all kinds of neat stuff about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z In the case of technology, phone use or Internet addiction, he says he hears lots of versions of a story in which someone loses the phone for a day, or the power goes out. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Europe’s barriers were sufficient to prevent political unification, but insufficient to halt the spread of technology and ideas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We may extract from them information about human anatomy, human technology, human diet, and perhaps even human social structure. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be easy with computer technology, you know. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Usually, he’s exploring people’s dedication to a different idol, that of technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The only thing that can move medicine away from this level of technology is new information, and the only imaginable source of this information is research. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Haitian American engineering feat at Cange was not a case of simple technology; the pipe bringing up the clean, sparkling water from the underground river could not have happened without sophisticated engineering. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z While attempting to isolate enough of the compounds in the cockroaches, an international consortium of scientists develops revolutionary technologies to increase the size of the cockroaches through genetic manipulation. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Those Chicagoans lucky enough to be able to afford the latest technology had electric fans to keep them cool. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Minutes later, he was regretting even thinking something nice about the centaur’s technology. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A laundry list of at least 14 explanatory factors has been proposed by historians of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, new disciplines and new technologies were creating new ways to examine the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He told them he wanted to marry technology and brain sciences to create a scientifically engineered therapy for waning attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Others of these technologies were brought to Tasmania when it was still part of the Australian mainland, and were subsequently lost in Tasmania’s cultural isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This may seem like a discouraging setback in our attempt to understand the course of history, since technology has undoubtedly been one of history’s strongest forces. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Echoing Dr. Gazzaley, she said she was thrilled at the idea of turning the tables on the technology, making it a slave in new ways rather than have it challenge the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Bring science, bring technology to her, and she’ll never really get it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z It would take a different kind of soldier, and new technologies, to bring the fight to the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Mesopotamian temple was the center not only of religion but also of economic redistribution, writing, and crafts technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They are tied to networks, reliant on phones, eager to communicate their messages and science, use technology to develop and further it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Thereafter, Chinese-derived crops, Neolithic technology, village living, and pottery similar to that of South China spread into tropical Southeast Asia, probably accompanied by South China’s language families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The new, expanded headquarters in Boston, donated by Harvard Medical School, now housed specialists in grant writing, technology, and administration in addition to regular staff. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The preceding paragraph gave examples of blueprint copying, whereas the transfer of Chinese porcelain technology to Europe provides an instance of long-drawn-out idea diffusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today, technology advances so rapidly that it is reported in the daily newspaper. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mind’s Eye promises to deliver entertainment directly to your brain through its patented NeuroFace technology. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But once science and technology got together, progress really took off. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There is no evidence of any new technology or introduction reaching Australia from Indonesia, after Australia’s initial colonization 40,000 years ago, until the dingo appeared around 1500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, there are three quite different levels of technology in medicine, so unlike each other as to seem altogether different undertakings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen nations were using the new technology of aircraft for bombing, for taking photographs of enemy troops, for shooting at soldiers on the ground, and for aerial combat against enemy pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I asked him if he was tempted to adopt the new technology. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nomadic hunter-gatherers are limited to technology that can be carried. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Recent breakthroughs in physics, made possible in part by fantastic new technologies, suggest answers to some of these longstanding questions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly slow in spreading down Africa’s north-south axis was human technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One can think of at least twenty major diseases that require this kind of supportive medical care because of the absence of an effective technology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This is the technology behind every flute, whistle, shakuhachi or recorder ever blown in the history of humankind. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He’s meeting with Beetee to update the technology on the broadcast system. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I can’t believe with all this technology, in a ship that traveled across the galaxy, the same flint lighter from my seventh grade chemistry lab is what they have on the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z While Chapter 12 illustrated those alternatives for the spread of writing, they also apply to the diffusion of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The pump bucket and pump handle, for example, were straightforward applications of existing technologies, and the boiler was basically a large brewer’s copper. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Corporate sponsors, green technology partners, and microfinance nonprofits have helped fill the funding gap, and individual contributions are more important than ever. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The University of Illinois was one of the foremost places in the world to look at the interactions between humans and technology, an area of study known as “human factors.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It’s no wonder the Bureau has such amazing technology. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z These were technologies that had been part of a profound effort to make cars and roads safer— along with airbags and billions spent to widen and improve roads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But she was distantly open to the idea that the Internet, this wondrous technology, could help a loner take some baby steps to connect, even if only with a new friend. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At the next level up is a kind of technology best termed “halfway technology.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the age of technology and communication has also made music a much more open exchange between maker and listener. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The Tasmanians had no contact with other societies for 10,000 years and acquired no new technology other than what they invented themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there’s a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z That technology lag may have contributed significantly to the delay in Native American developments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The price is never as high as the cost of managing the same diseases during the earlier stages of no-technology or halfway technology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, agents use a growing arsenal of technology: helicopters, night-vision goggles, thermal imaging that picks up body heat, and seismic sensors that detect footsteps along immigrant trails. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Might all the societies of an entire continent be unreceptive, thereby explaining technology’s slow pace of development there? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The case of water-wheels is a particularly interesting one because the technology had developed extremely slowly for almost a thousand years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That pursuit itself is nothing novel, of course, but now, a new generation of powerful technology lets researchers see the inside of the brain, watch it work, literally, and observe when it fails to work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the same time, Europeans were impressed by American technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They lacked the financial means, the technology, and the social organization to maintain colonies so far from Europe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Then she looked at Foaly and the technology at his fingertips. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Held in the architecturally magnificent Crystal Palace, the “Great Exhibition of Works of Industry of all Nations” was a celebration of technology and progress. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And however rapidly technology may invent new uses for insecticides and new ways of applying them, it is likely to find the insects keeping a lap ahead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It should be in the six hundreds with books about technology, not the nine hundreds with history and geography.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z A better answer might be one implicit in Robert Temple's book, The Genius of China, a history of Chinese science and technology published in 1998. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In Cuba large-scale sugar planting began in the 1800s, brought by new owners interested in using modern technology. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Geeks’ passions often crisscross back and forth between technology and more traditional forms of culture, with unusual depths of interest in both. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If such technologies were available, who would control them, and who would ensure their safety? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Around the same time that the violin began its conquest of Europe, keyboard technology was also undergoing rapid advancement. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He has looked closely at the chemical relationship between drugs and technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But the engineers in the group now assigned her the job of preparing the charts and equations for the well-received space technology lectures. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z While blueprint copying and modification are the most straightforward option for transmitting technology, that option is sometimes unavailable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The importance of diffusion, and of geographic location in making it possible, is strikingly illustrated by some otherwise incomprehensible cases of societies that abandoned powerful technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, human population densities were gradually rising throughout the late Pleistocene anyway, thanks to improvements in human technology for collecting and processing wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is a pointed parallel to personal communications technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I never really thought of Kenya as part of my community, but 1 of the boys says because of technology we have to think of our community on a global scale. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As the apostle of building the biggest cyclotrons that technology and funding could produce, Ernest Lawrence was not shy about envisioning the new Berkeley cyclotron being funded by William Crocker’s donation on a grand scale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The euthanasia program had given the Nazis the technology to create mass-murder factories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Once an inventor has discovered a use for a new technology, the next step is to persuade society to adopt it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I don’t claim that idea was consistent or coherent; I claim that it was successful, that it provided a template for the discovery of new knowledge and new technologies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Its supremacy was commercial and intellectual; it was based less on infantry troops than on innovative technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They didn’t have much technology, but they had a pond, and acres of land, and animals. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Who would be the masters, and who the victims, of this technology? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once, the Dream’s parameters were caged by technology and by the limits of horsepower and wind. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z To Dr. Strayer and others, the answer is that the rise in driver distraction, caused in large part by new technology, has undermined the gains those other safety measures have made. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Hugo said, “Nothing wrong with Japanese hi-fi technology, either.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There’s ultra-modern science technology here, too, including an EEG cap that is wireless, meaning that it can send signals without being hooked up to wires. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In this other room, there are the latest video game machines, like Microsoft’s Kinect video game console, which uses motion-capture technology to allow a person to interact with the action on the screen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In general, the larger the size and the higher the density, the more complex and specialized were the technology and organization, for reasons that we shall examine in detail in later chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We live, thanks to the reach of our technologies, in perhaps the most argumentative age of any in history. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And they gave me the art of journalism, a powerful technology for seekers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The claim that an alien society, if it had a sufficiently advanced technology, would come up with almost exactly the same figure as us for the speed of light is perfectly sound. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s ironic that Zero fears it so much, then,” I reply, “but uses his own knowledge of technology to try to stop you.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is true that European technology dazzled Native Americans on first encounter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Was Watt familiar with the concept of latent heat when he devised his new engine, and did the new theory inform his new technology? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At least the direction in which those ten factors influence technology seems clear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sixty-inch, a huge leap forward in cyclotron technology, had just begun to work, but Ernest Lawrence was already thinking ahead to the next step. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The self-regulating machine is not just a crucial step towards a whole series of more advanced technologies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They are employees of multinational industry: pharmaceutical salespeople, electronic engineers, information technology managers, accountants, data analysts, plant managers, regional vice presidents, biotechnologists, bankers, manufacturers’ representatives, and franchise chain managers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Following the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens acquired the technology, the organisational skills, and perhaps even the vision necessary to break out of Afro-Asia and settle the Outer World. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was a small, unwarlike population with simple technology and weapons, and without strong leadership or organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the real show, they have these big panels that spin around behind the contestant’s head to reveal the next category, but obviously we don’t have that kind of technology. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Rather, she says the technology—coupled with brain imaging—began to offer hope that real therapies could be developed for attention-related issues. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Père Lafontant despised the concept because he knew what it meant in practical terms: the simplest technology was for the poor, while the rich had the resources to afford the best technology. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But then I think of how my old friends would love all this fancy technology and these special classes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the last centuries before 3000 B.C., developments in accounting technology, format, and signs rapidly led to the first system of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Borrowing technology and ideas from the Midwest, the nomadic peoples of New England transformed their societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So, the highest of all our complex technologies in the hardest of our sciences will soon be engaged, full scale, in what is essentially biologic research—and with some aspects of social science, at that. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z North China, South China, the coast, and the interior contributed different crops, livestock, technologies, and cultural features to the eventually unified China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And it could be enclosed and shielded by technology. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In these societies technology developed most rapidly, because they accumulated not only their own inventions but also those of other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Highly educated workers benefited from the pace of technological change and the increased use of computer-based technologies, but blue-collar workers often found themselves displaced in the sudden transition from an industrial to a service economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But with digital technology, researchers say the amount of information, the speed of its delivery, and, pointedly, its interactive nature, have changed our world by orders of magnitude. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Again and again, people with access to the prerequisites for food production, and with a location favoring diffusion of technology from elsewhere, replaced peoples lacking these advantages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In general, societies that engaged in intense exchanges of crops, livestock, and technologies related to food production were more likely to become involved in other exchanges as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s a hypothetical molecular-engineering technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, many individually unlikely steps had to occur in biological evolution and human history for our present intelligence and technology to develop. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once we release our technology that allows cellular regression beyond the twenty-first year.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z More broadly, he became the unofficial curator of cyclotron history and an assiduous chronicler of the spread of the technology, keeping Ernest supplied with frequent reports from the field. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Later writers tended to attribute European success not to European deities but to European technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But this technology was still not capable of “approaching, much less surpassing, the success of the radioactive elements, in providing us with high-speed electrons and high-speed atoms.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The remaining consideration affecting acceptance of new technologies is the ease with which their advantages can be observed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The most extreme losses of technology in the Australian region took place on the island of Tasmania, 130 miles off the coast of southeastern Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m a coder; I love everything to do with coding and technology. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “It’s my lab. I’m responsible for a lot of the technology you’ll see around Summerland. Electric lights,” he says, pointing to the ceiling. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Hence social scientists continue to debate the specific reasons why receptivity changed in Islam, China, and Europe, and why the Chimbus, Ibos, and Navajo were more receptive to new technology than were their neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Europe’s fragmentation did, and China’s unity didn’t, foster the advance of technology, science, and capitalism by fostering competition between states and providing innovators with alternative sources of support and havens from persecution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Similar questions arise whenever one tries to understand the origins and spread of many other aspects of human culture—such as technology, religion, and food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The remaining four proposed factors—war, centralized government, climate, and resource abundance—appear to act inconsistently: sometimes they stimulate technology, sometimes they inhibit it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Without diffusion, fewer technologies are acquired, and more existing technologies are lost. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Or am I a new Jenna, the product of technology, changed by what was put in or maybe what was left out? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The explosion of technology since the Industrial Revolution impresses us today, but the medieval explosion was equally impressive compared with that of the Bronze Age, which in turn dwarfed that of the Upper Paleolithic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Others have claimed that the real Scientific Revolution came in the nineteenth century, in the marriage of science and technology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The halfway technology that was evolving for poliomyelitis in the early 1950s, just before the emergence of the basic research that made the vaccine possible, provides another illustration of the point. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been an age since Mark had seen technology like that. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Still another factor tipping the balance away from hunting-gathering was the cumulative development of technologies on which food production would eventually depend—technologies for collecting, processing, and storing wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our intelligence and our technology have given us the power to affect the climate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Let us now summarize how variations in these three factors—time of onset of food production, barriers to diffusion, and human population size—led straightforwardly to the observed intercontinental differences in the development of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The same technology has been applied to human beings, with other kinds of rewards, and the results have been startling. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Given the capacity to control autonomic functions, modulate brain waves, run cells, why shouldn’t it be possible to employ exactly the same technology to go in precisely the opposite direction? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of our technology permits us to deny its existence, and we maintain flickers of life for long stretches in one community of cells or another, as though we were keeping a flag flying. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar limitations on the resources accessible to existing human technology prevail in the regions of the world recently occupied by other bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hints like the stories he sometimes told about the Colonies and their glittering cities, their advanced technology and festive holidays. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Nowadays, when almost all societies on Earth are connected to each other, we cannot imagine a fad’s going so far that an important technology would actually be discarded. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we saw in previous chapters, that evidence is important because food production led to high population densities, germs, technology, political organization, and other ingredients of power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Galton had been unable to discover genes, but he would not miss out on the creation of genetic technologies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She may not rely on modern technology to find our new towns, but she sure did to drive there. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z His first students were in the vo-tech program—vocations and technology—and took half their classes in such disciplines as auto mechanics, carpentry, baking, welding, and hairdressing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The result, with the arrival of Western technology, is that the more entrepreneurial societies are now exploiting Western technology to overwhelm their conservative neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was work, sleep, and a fife shaped around computing, technology, and the Net. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the availability of slaves undermined the economic motive for the development of technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Maya was just super serious about technology. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In fact, we shall see that, paradoxically, this large number of cultural factors makes it easier, not harder, to understand world patterns of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why would Zero, someone clearly skilled in technology, want to destroy this technology? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Does, as Hall assumed, the new science have to be contemporary with the technology that derives from it? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Society adopts the solution if it is compatible with the society’s values and other technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why was the disk’s precocious technology not widely adopted in Crete or elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And, after that, Neal went to Foundry Networks, which made routers and switches—essential pieces of technology to deliver Internet traffic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In violation of United Nations resolutions, North Koreans have also sold rockets and nuclear weapons technology to countries including Iran and Syria, according to U.N. officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The entire planet of Frobozz was in a PvP zone, and both magic and technology functioned here, which meant that all bets were off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He met with executives from Columbia Broadcasting System and Philco in the United States and flew to Holland to make a pitch, fruitlessly, to the Dutch technology conglomerate Philips. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I have technology. Then language arts 3rd. You do, too, right? We should have all our core classes together. That’s how it works.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Even when technology succeeds in manufacturing a machine as big as Texas to do everything we recognize as human, it will still be, at best, a single individual. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The accelerator was the harder technology, yet that they had mastered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Katherine sat down with the engineers to review the requirements for the space technology lectures and the research reports that were starting to come out of the process. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For this, he needed equipment to manage intense radioactivities and, as a capstone, a nuclear reactor—the one nuclear technology that had eluded Lawrence’s grasp. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He’s developing a technology to burn low-grade bituminous coal more efficiently.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The misery could not have been worse had they lost an engine in flight, as planes did back in the mortal days, when technology occasionally failed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was my time’s technology and standard of living that amazed them most. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z By 2006, people in the United States were sending around 12.5 billion texts a month, which sounds like a lot, but the technology really was embryonic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Among the resulting proximate factors behind the conquest, the most important included differences in germs, technology, political organization, and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meantime, computer technology, such as it was, was getting more sophisticated. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The McMahon Bill excluded the military from control of atomic energy, except as the technology was directly applicable to weapons, propulsion, and other military needs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In all six respects, the maker of the Phaistos disk had access to much less powerful technologies to combine into a printing system than did Gutenberg. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For much of this book I have emphasized the diffusion of technology that takes place in the absence of formidable barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, it has been an outstandingly successful theory and underlies nearly all of modern science and technology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Wes’s mother, Mary, works in medical technology, specializing in elder care. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z For instance, he was working on a technology to burn coal more efficiently, so that even the lowest-grade coal could be mined and sold. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Where the goal of Greek philosophy had been contemplative understanding, that of Baconian philosophy was a new technology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The classes were the same: language and communications; commerce and industry; science and technology; civil procedures and government. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z These advantages and head start enabled medieval China to lead the world in technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is, quite obviously, not a question of either/or—do we either live with technology or give it up entirely? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Plus, Dr. Gazzaley notes, the technology companies who build the magical gadgets have every incentive to make them our irresistible com-panions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The immediate causes of that language replacement were the advantages in technology and political organization, stemming ultimately from the advantage of an early rise of food production, that invading Europeans held over Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The relative importance of local invention and of borrowing depends mainly on two factors: the ease of invention of the particular technology, and the proximity of the particular society to other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Fairy technology. Most impressive,” he muttered, popping the battery from its groove. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Only because Japan was a populous, isolated island could it get away with its rejection of the powerful new military technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our technology can duplicate only a tiny fraction of the intricate biochemistry that our bodies effortlessly perform: we have only just begun to study these processes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But maybe, I suggested, technology was also keeping him from a broader life, preventing his getting out and doing the sometimes hard work that goes into building friendships and relationships. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ultimate ancestors of all modern Polynesian populations shared essentially the same culture, language, technology, and set of domesticated plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a traditional enough room—dark oak and floor-to-ceiling shelving—but Artemis had jammed it with the latest computer technology. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But it seemed to have a fink to a tracer on the Berg, maybe controlled by old-school radar or other shortwave technology. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Immediate reasons for Pizarro’s success included military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses; infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia; European maritime technology; the centralized political organization of European states; and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We must learn the science and technology that provide the only conceivable tools for our survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a technology designed to make up for disease, or to postpone death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat in science and technology, thinking how I'd pinch some chemicals and swallow them whole because I couldn't stand the thought of going back to being Paki-Boy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Political power was in the hands of the merchants, who actively promoted the technology on which their prosperity depended. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In effect, Europe received its crops, livestock, technology, and writing systems from the Fertile Crescent, which then gradually eliminated itself as a major center of power and innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As the twentieth century progressed, developments in computing and interpersonal communications technology, which had been evolving somewhat independently, began to converge. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The system worked with the same magnetic levitation technology used in Germany and Japan to propel bullet trains with magnets instead of wheels. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Thus the technology of music, of all things, was satirically portrayed as the ultimate triumph of hard-hearted commerce over humanity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For all the reasons that we discussed in Chapters 13 and 14, the farmers and the fishing peoples were the ones to develop more-complex technology, societies, and political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is no doubt that Europeans developed a big advantage in weaponry, technology, and political organization over most of the non-European peoples that they conquered. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to all these factors, Eurasia was the continent on which technology started its post-Pleistocene acceleration earliest and resulted in the greatest local accumulation of technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The outcome clearly illustrates how environments can affect economy, technology, political organization, and fighting skills within a short time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “When it comes to addictions, whether alcohol or technology or the Internet, it’s almost one hundred percent motivated by an external force.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Its protection meant pursuing the most advanced nuclear technology that could be exploited for the purpose. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Moriori were a small, isolated population of hunter-gatherers, equipped with only the simplest technology and weapons, entirely inexperienced at war, and lacking strong leadership or organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within East Asia, China’s head start in food production, technology, writing, and state formation had the consequence that Chinese innovations also contributed heavily to developments in neighboring regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Studies done years later using modern technology have confirmed that the Great Molasses Flood was caused by the outrageously shoddy construction of a tank required to hold 2.5 million gallons of heavy, sticky liquid. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Their prey were seals, shellfish, nesting seabirds, and fish that could be captured by hand or with clubs and required no more elaborate technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sound evidence for the existence of human differences in intelligence that parallel human differences in technology is lacking. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Almost everything offered today for the treatment of heart disease is at this level of technology, with the transplanted and artificial hearts as ultimate examples. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In any case, despite the anti- climactic results, the test results were interpreted by the AEC as validating Livermore’s role as the developer of “new ideas” in thermonuclear technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When it came to technology, Reggie had come of age in an extraordinary time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z After all, Baird thought, if the technology was new, was it fair to make the case that Reggie was grossly deviating from a standard of care, if the standard of care wasn’t clear? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Besides permitting sedentary living and hence the accumulation of possessions, food production was decisive in the history of technology for another reason. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1951, the lab staged Project Greenhouse, a test of thermonuclear technology at the South Pacific coral atoll of Eniwetok. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dr. Gazzaley, a neurologist, would bring his understanding of neural networks, and the technology that looked at the inner-workings of the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "Yeah, she's really anxious about us staying in touch. It would be cool if this phone did something besides make calls and take pictures. I'm pretty sure dinosaurs used more advanced technology." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Second, military technology was far more potent in Eurasia than in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s based on a completely new technology. It uses something called the round processor. I don’t suppose that will mean anything to you.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Know the risk technology poses in your life, and tame it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We have been hoaxed along by comparable substitutes for technology right up to the present. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As in prior wars, this one presented scientists with the challenge of helping soldiers and their commanders figure out how to take advantage of technology rather than be overwhelmed by it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Over the last two decades, genetic technologies have advanced so rapidly that we can decipher how several of these genes operate in time and space to enable these complex functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z |
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