"Over the last two years they've grown in size, they've grown in capability, and ruthlessly have grown in effectiveness".
The enrichment facilities have grown in capability, capacity and number; there has been work on detonators, triggers and missile technology, too.Iran wants, at the very least, to put itself in a position where it has the expertise and materials with which to build deliverable nuclear weapons quickly.
One reason for this resurgence is that the simple workstation has grown in capability to rival anything similar, available in the past.
Afghan security forces are growing in capability in other areas that support security operations.
As 3-D scanners grow in capability and drop in cost, their availability raises questions about copyright protections for physical objects.
Naturally, you shrug — until the new product grows in capability to meet your customers' needs.
When I think of Clayton Christensen and his disruption model, I usually think of some relatively small-scale, simple, seemingly not-very-effective or advanced technology that slowly grows in capability and takes the place of the mature market leader, with PCs and mainframes being the best example.
More likely, believes Autor, is an emerging human-robot "partnership," in which people take advantage of the advanced capabilities of robots, big data, augmented reality and all the other bells and whistles that are coming into their own and growing in capabilities.
In time, the machines grew in capacity and capability and shrank in size, but as late as 1977 the president of Digital Equipment Corporation saw "no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home".
Siri has run into quite a bit more competition over the past few years as Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and Google Assistant have grown in their capabilities and made the shortcomings of Siri's AI wits a bit more evident.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim), which for much of its history was seen as a lesser outpost of al-Qaida, has grown in size and capability, partly due to income from ransom payments which, according to an estimate in a recent New York Times investigation, have totalled at least £55.1m ($91.5m) since 2008.
