But 115 years ago, electricity was very much an exotic, glamorous neophyte technology battling to replace the ubiquitous gas lighting.
Probably the best example of how expensive, glamorous security technology can easily be undermined by poor procedures is biometric systems (see article).A sensible and balanced approach, then, involves not only security technology but also a well-defined set of security policies which users understand and keep to.
The run-up of home prices made even less sense than the dot-com bubble — I mean, there wasn't even a glamorous new technology to justify claims that old rules no longer applied — but somehow financial markets accepted crazy home prices as the new normal.
GEOTHERMAL energy, long a poor relation among the more glamorous renewable technologies of wind and solar power, is poised to smarten its dowdy image.
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The Science Museum sometimes struggles to find investors, being more fun/worthy than glamorous, but science and technology does have some rich friends and, as a result, it can theme its corporate relationships to galleries.
Ford announced instead a series of less glamorous improvements in fuel-injection technology and transmission design that are intended to improve the gas mileage of many existing models.
Clearly not glamorous, but a highly profitable technology business, nonetheless.
Asked how he would describe his position as the eminence grise of social networking, he offers a less glamorous alternative: the "Victor Meldrew of technology".
While most of the roles displaced by technology were not particularly glamorous, they were still staffed by humans requiring steady employment to make ends meet.
