Sentence examples for failed technologies from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, it promotes failed technologies, such as nuke power, where centralized, corporate profits are huge.

Material artefacts such as failed technologies and traces of a collapsed building are disposed of, documents are shredded or made hard to access and media stories are drowned out with fresh online content.

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

That is a short list of 8 items -- who can't add their own tales of woe in the face of failed technologies or faulty systems?

When it comes to high-tech screening methods, the TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies".

Where policy has failed, technology has succeeded.

When applied to coal-fired power plants and storage in land-based rocks, CCS looks like a failed technology.

"That reluctance, and Ford's commitment to failed technology, cannot be accepted as a realistic attempt to solve the obvious safety problem confronting Ford: the massive failure of distributor-mounted T.F.I. modules due to excessive heat and thermal stress".

His company, Sherwood Partners, has carved out a prosperous niche as an expert in shutting down failed technology start-ups on behalf of venture capital firms and other disenchanted investors.

My reference to Cinerama, a system that was generally regarded as a failed technology in Hollywood because of its expense and cumbersome equipment, was prompted merely by the fact that the video screen showing three TeleSuite executives at an similar table in Ohio stretched the full 14-foot width of the conference room at Rosenbluth, which is a business partner with Telesuite.

When the word "Laserdisc" comes to mind, I think of three things: Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and failed technology.