"We're on the tail end of technology being special," says John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design.
Hopes that the second half of 2002 would see the end of technology's business decline seem to be retreating.
"Blacks are always on the tail end of technology, and we need to get on the front end," said Harry Alford, the president and chief executive of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.
The games and apps they like may be entertaining and even educational, but they still put a kid on the receiving, not creating, end of technology.
This is not the glamourous end of technology, but it is the part that can really make a very big practical difference to people's lives.
It is not the first time Rovers have been on the wrong end of technology after suffering a controversial defeat by Hull at the Magic Weekend in May.
On the back end of technology products, going with The Right Thing even if someone else invented it, is common.
Many of the firms that have made it to market this year, whether at the high or low end of technology, have had to slash their prices before listing or risk having the market do it for them.
Stanton wanted EVE to be at the higher end of technology, and asked iPod designer Jonathan Ive to inspect her design.
Furthermore, a less predictable supply chain is more complex to manage, which results in favoring environmental technologies and methods that are less disruptive such as end-of-pipe technologies or abatement systems.
In turn, many traditional end-of pipe technologies are associated with high amounts of process waste, which provides plasma technologies with an opportunity to establish them in the market as more efficient and in many occasions, more environment-friendly ones.
