As an item of fashion instead of technology, buying an Apple Watch will be less demonstration, and more consideration.
Criticisms of this form have been put especially forcefully by William Wimsatt (1999), who argues that the creative and inferential abilities of human users make it the case that any given idea, or item of technology, can have fluctuating numbers of cultural parents over time.
We have weekly Developer Talks where a member of the team talks about an item of interest – either some challenge they've tackled or more general talks on technology.
Fanciful items of technology supplied their every need including machines that produced toast and custard and a cheerful blue vacuum cleaner that kept their home spotless.
The list has never been particularly concerned with literature — based on the principle, perhaps, that eighteen-year-olds haven't had much time to read, so busy are they messing around with whatever new items of technology have defined their lives.
"There are some select items of technology that revolutionised the modern world and are hugely sought after by collectors.
Ideas and items of technology also have no stable analogue to the genome, or germline, because different elements within cycles of technological reproduction, including ideas, behaviours of artisans, and material elements of technologies themselves, can all temporarily acquire the status of replicators depending on the attention that human agents happen to be paying to them.
However, there are occasional sophisticated items of technology shown or at least referenced to such as electrocardiography monitors, arcade video games and laser fences.
As a result, 18 key items of technologies for ultra-deep sour gas reservoirs were developed, including horizontal-well drilling speed increasing technology, horizontal-well mud logging and well logging technology, downhole operation technology, and safety and environmental protection technology.
Apple and Nike are working on new item of wearable technology that will have greater integration into existing gadgets, and is less obvious and more "stealth", according to the Nike chief executive, Mark Parker.
For each problem discussed, what similar difficulties exist regardless of whether the item is a piece of technology?
