The phrase "an emergent technology" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a technology that is still in its early stages of development or implementation. Example: "Virtual reality is an emergent technology that has the potential to revolutionize the gaming industry."
The dynamics of how an emergent technology or a technological cluster affects societal practices are far from being clearly understood, and yet they can be argued to be at the very core of any forward-looking activity involving social aspects.
Or is this what an emergent technology looks like before it crosses the valley of death?
Again, an emergent technology has meant new commercial opportunities being explored and developed by fledgling entrepreneurs before being absorbed and reordered by larger corporations, though these are now as likely to be telecommunications or computer companies as they are music companies.
Directed self-assembly is an emergent technology of current interest [1 10].
Oil-in-water emulsions have been proposed as an emergent technology to transport viscous heavy crude oils.
Object-Oriented (OO) design patterns are an emergent technology: they are reusable micro-architectures, high-level building blocks.
In VR, as with any emergent technology, there's so much exploration.
As with any emergent technology, costs need to be reduced to achieve the potential, but significant economic and social benefit could also be realised.The British government's Cost Reduction Task Force, which I chaired in 2012, identified a route map to achieving a price for offshore wind of £100 per MW hour by 2020.
My guiding principle for writing about all emergent technology (texts, social media, e-mail, etc). is strict naturalism: you learn as much as you need to about how the thing functions, and then you depict the experience of using it as utterly normative.
Augmented Reality (AR) is a valuable emergent technology, by which we can effectively respond to the new styles of learning needed by the students of the information and knowledge society.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01481.002 Optogenetics is a powerful emergent technology for investigating complex patterns of synaptic connectivity and circuit properties that underlie physiology and behavior.
