For many in the online community, he had been both hero and pioneer: a man who used his technological ability not to become a multimillionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur but, instead, to try and make things better for others.
This is a reflection of the technological ability for thousands of people in remote locations to work on the same project, sharing information electronically.
Fertility clinic medical director Dr. Eric Widra suggests "This is clearly a time where the technological ability to do this is converging with the demographics".
But it is also recognised that the Spanish have shown a very high level of technological ability – something question marks hung over at the start of the project.
To coax the oil from Tupi, engineers will have to drill up to 16,000 feet below the sea floor through salt and rocks, in water depths of up to 10,000 feet, an undertaking that is at the frontier of the industry's technological ability, according to PFC Energy, a consultancy in Washington.
Top intelligence officials have said that analysts believe that Iran has been moving to expand its infrastructure and technological ability to become a nuclear power, but that the Iranian leadership has not made a decision to build an atomic bomb.
Xiong Yuehui, head of the science and technology department of the ministry of environmental protection, told Xinhua that China's air pollution was a problem of political will, not technological ability.
He was applauding his state's decision to do away with teacher tenure, writing: "Now we can advance younger, tech-savvy, good teachers". But technological ability isn't exclusively a domain of the young.
That does require a very high level of technical ability, and technological ability, and that in itself is probably unseen to the general public.
The main contributions of this study are: ecodesign constructs to be further researched the conjoint analysis of technological ability and market potential in a redesign project, and the requirements to gain managerial support for a redesign project.
