Duplication and reliability are often a common causes of concern in the engagement of the non expert, however the challenged posed here was to respond to a hypothesis put by the manager of the Wagga Wagga archive, and to see if this could be tested, using the stand-alone technological capability of a smartphone.
Such are the anachronisms of 21st-century Africa, where digital innovations are trumpeted daily, but where large swaths of society have not even experienced an agricultural revolution, let alone a technological one.
The administration has said that while BP alone has the technological capability to stop the leak, it must take direction from Admiral Allen and other senior administration officials.
The wind resource available worldwide is large, and much of the world's future electrical energy needs can be provided by wind energy alone if the technological barriers are overcome.
"Since nearly all job losses, regardless of the type of task, were associated with regular work, while growth in employment took place mainly in the form of non-standard employment, technological advancement alone cannot be the only explanation for job polarisation.
"We have made quite a few technology inventions using sensors, there are at least 10 technological innovations alone," says Janis. "Nobody has done anything like this in the world," he claims.
With the battlefield constantly shifting, countermeasures using a variety of technologies must be developed, though it is difficult to counter IEDs through technological means alone.
But technological innovation alone will not be enough.
Google's team, by contrast, was confident that it alone was the true technological innovator.
Technological leadership alone won't guarantee success, however, as Intel has learned in repeated attempts at cracking the mobile market.
