It was announced on the day that the British Retail Consortium, the industry trade body, warned that almost 1m retail jobs could disappear over the next decade because of technological developments and the growing cost of running bricks-and-mortar shops.
"We recognize the equity markets are continuing to evolve rapidly partly because of technological developments, and partly in response to legislative and regulatory changes," said Abi Jones, a spokeswoman of the Financial Services Authority.
Mr. Feroli said Fed policy makers recognized that "long-run economic growth usually occurs because of technological developments like the iPhone," so the Fed was merely "trying to get the economy back on a cyclical growth path, getting it to operate closer to its full potential".
Nevertheless, in the sixteenth century, colonialism changed decisively because of technological developments in navigation that began to connect more remote parts of the world.
This classification is necessary from a methodological viewpoint because the level of technological development determines the real possibility of sugarcane energy use.
I never wrote that column, because, irritatingly, Kurzweil's prophesied timeline of technological development is not (yet) actually flagrantly wrong.
I get concerned when regulators and legislators get a whiff of any kind of technological development because they are tempted to regulate it.
"The convergence theory, in history and sociology, states that all industrial systems, whether capitalist or communist, would converge in their social, political and economic systems because of the determinant effects of technological development".
Abandoning attempts at harmonization on the grounds that piracy would quickly get round any rules because of the rapid pace of technological development would be tantamount to an admission of powerlessness.
There are many stories of technological development not serving African communities because their needs weren't understood.
