The falling cost of mobile computing pushed down the share price of British chip designer ARM Holdings nearly 3% on Wednesday.
According to the Wearable Computing website: "In the next five years, we can expect wearable computing to be adopted in a variety of industries, including health care, shipping and courier services, inventory and warehouse operations, conference and trade shows settings, security and law enforcement, newsgathering, museums and zoos, automatic data collection, and sports and entertainment.
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As in this IBM job ad: "The ideal developer will be passionate about cloud computing".
Before the era of laser theodolites and mobile computing, he depended on endless manual measurements that started respectively from the door of the Old Kirk at Bo'ness and Blair Castle, Culross – both known Ordinance Survey benchmarks.
The Federation of Small Businesses said its members are still refused loans to buy machinery, cover cashflow problems and expand sales.
The struggle for social justice takes place no longer just amid lines of machinery, but in places such as the Focus E15 occupation by single mums and the Sex Worker Open University projects in London and Glasgow.
The computing press started paying attention – Bartle wrote a cover feature on the game for Practical Computing, explaining the creation of MUD and defining his hopes for the future of the genre: What I would like to see - and it's a long, long way off - is some local or national network with good graphics, sound effects and a well designed set of worlds of varying degrees of difficulty.
UK tech entrepreneurs are calling for tax breaks in return for volunteering to teach code, along with creating a legal framework for bitcoin and more investment for teachers grappling with the new computing curriculum - all part of an ambitious tech manifesto launched on Wednesday.
Secondly, the UK has for many years tended to spend less on investment in new plant and machinery than its peers.
But 'affective computing' companies, such as the US firm Affectiva, have mooted that their software could be used in tandem with Dubai's extensive CCTV network to measure the moods expressed on people's faces.
