"The Japanese experience is apparently going to be pretty bad, but mankind over the centuries has devised technologies that turned out to be very useful to mankind, developed them, taken some lumps from accidents and mishaps, made corrections to the technology and moved ahead," he said.
Human ingenuity has devised a technology that makes each of us potentially the biggest enemy of our own privacy.
The pioneering Hollywood studio that revolutionised the industry with the first computer animated feature film is pushing cinematic boundaries still further with its latest production, Cars 2. Walt Disney's Pixar studios has devised "mind-blowing" technology that will make the film – a fast-moving spy story with anthropomorphised cars as characters – its most challenging and complex yet.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google which affectionately calls its home "Googleplex"–has devised a search technology that scours the Internet for relevant information and then ranks pages.
In order to compete, Olacabs has devised some clever technology in hopes of closing the gap between India's infrastructure issues and providing a cab more reliably than its peers.
Using a proprietary 'biocatalyst' machine, Newlight Technologies has devised a way of taking greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and turning it into plastic pellets.
Philips Research has devised a "self-stratifying" LCD technology, in which a blend of liquid crystal and a polymer-forming material is applied to a flexible substrate.
Better Place, for example, in attempting to make the current electric vehicle technologies competitive, has devised a business model in which it sells miles driven, rather than cars, in much the same way that cell-phone companies sell minutes.
The consulting firm called in, Accenture, has devised plans for greater use of technology by officers to gather evidence, and for the public to access police services.
Michael Murphy of the California Technology Stock Letter has devised a quantitative approach to analyzing emerging technology companies: He calculates a statistic he calls "growth flow," which adds R&D spending per share to earnings per share.
