Humans have achieved the widest range of adaptability to extremes in temperature; for example, culture and technology enable humans to protect themselves under a variety of thermal conditions.
Other market activities that were previously thought to require centralization and oversight, can now be decentralized and self-regulated (crypto-currency being the leading example), and the technology beneath that decentralization (so-called blockchain) will have many further critical applications.
There's a close connection between knowledge brokering and certain areas of science policy, for example, and also technology transfer, where the goal is to establish business relationships between academic scientists and the for-profit sector.
In the initial stages of industry development, for example, the product and technology provider generally has the most power.
Although more than one interviewee pointed to one example of people and technology bringing the worst out of one another.
It's a great example of intelligence and technology in the HR department providing considerable benefits to the rest of the organisation.
A dramatic example of walls and technology changing the course of history is recalled in a new book, "The Shield of Achilles," by Philip Bobbitt, a historian of nuclear strategy.
It could also mean councils outsourcing some services, for example benefits, computing and technology, and facilities management, to private companies.
Our understanding of skilled migration has focused mainly on occupations associated with highly skilled jobs in which migrant men are over-represented, for example in science and technology.
But supporters said classes needn't stress those factors and could study, for example, how transportation and technology affect various communities.
