If technology like MultiPoint proves compelling, Microsoft's Unlimited Potential group, a more formal organization directing technology to poor people, will try to incorporate it in commercial products.
There, a much more significant role is given to humans as conscious agents shaping and directing technology development towards sustainability transitions.
I find that despite significant changes in the recipients and outcomes of DARPA attentions, these same institutions for directing technology were in place both before and during Tether's directorship.
H2Gen's story begins in the mid-1990s, when founders Sandy Thomas and Frank Lomax worked for Arlington consultancy Directed Technologies on an engagement for Ford Motor.
Currently, contradictions and issues in literature slow down the progress of semi-direct technologies in comparison to direct and indirect recycling concepts.
This, of course, would give more scope to prioritise ads, at a time when Twitter has admitted that its "direct response" technology to target ads is underperforming.
And transmitting power through undersea cables would be expensive as well, particularly if newer, more efficient methods like high-voltage direct current technology are used.
While the digital age may have taken its toll on direct mail, technology plays a role in the enhancements being offered by the Royal Mail and Brand Sense.
Siemens is also offering high-voltage direct current technology, but ABB is a step ahead.
