Despite the many patents issued in the IT and computer technology industries (the sectors accounted for roughly 30% of all newly-issued patents in 1990, in America, rising to nearly 40% today) legal challenges between the big tech firms have been relatively rare.
The implications extend well beyond the computer and information technology industry because, in addition to being directly incorporated in devices such as medical diagnostics and automobiles, computer software technology is used in the development and design of virtually everything today — from computational biology to 3D printing to computer-aided design.
But, of course, computer technology and the industry really flowered in the United States.
New York Tech MeetUp, a nonprofit group that represents computer coders and other technology industry people in New York, asked the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to pitch how their policies "would benefit the growth of New York start-up community and other start-up entrepreneurs".
"The statistics are staggering, especially for a state that has an economy that is vested in energy, computer technology, and defense — all industries that largely require education beyond a high school diploma," says Joe Ibarra, a field organizer for the National Council of La Raza.
Perhaps for the first time since the invention of the computer, technology is outpacing customers' needs, industry executives say.
Maybe in this setting we can begin a discussion of how computer technology might change the record industry, or vice versa, without immediately resorting to words like "convergence".
I guarantee you that even five to seven years ago, if you said to a VC, "Let's use computer technology to change the taxi industry," you'd have gotten laughed out of the office.
Prof de Waal strongly opposes the use of real primate actors in advertising, film and television, and comments that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' realistic depictions of apes using computer technology alone proves that the industry has no need for the genuine article.
There are cities and suburbs, the business communities, the computer technology community, and the space industry communities.
