As in those battles, technology is just the starting point for debates filled with emotion and industry politics.
But the recording industry has battled technology companies on Capitol Hill, asserting that new digital products make music easy to copy and share over the Internet.
Rather than fighting an either-or battle against technology, live event venues are increasingly seeing the additive benefits of emerging technologies.
The government spent more than $140 million to develop the battle simulation technology used at Mount Fuji.
The Chinese are already making their influence felt abroad, in such matters as the battle among technology standards for next-generation mobile phones.
It talks of winning the battle for technology when it launches worms into space 40 years after man went to the moon.
In a Portuguese village in the early 1920's, the battle between technology and tradition, between "obscurantists" and "illuminatists" and between life and death is being waged.
Nevertheless, building and adapting them implies a constant battle between technology and the forces of nature, requiring the application and development of the most advanced techniques in the construction process.
NATO allies will also be critical in a battle of technology, as the West competes with a more assertive China in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotechnology.
There is, at present, a ding-dong battle between technology companies and accountants over the retention of rules for the treatment of goodwill the difference between an acquisition price and a company's book value following a merger.
