Picture windmills, tidal turbines and solar panels on rooftops dotting the European landscape, and vast solar arrays with tens of thousands of panels that have tracking technology to follow the sun.
In part the popularity of technology career paths has tracked the rise of tech in our everyday lives.
Over the last couple of weeks we've tracked the biggest technology stories of the past 10 years, and the way the Guardian reported them.
It did not say what the rule would be if the police had tracked Mr. Jones with a technology not hidden on his car.
Syrian forces have reportedly been using technology to track their opposition, and "Syrian officials may also have tracked satellite phones and computer addresses to locate a group of foreign journalists in February who were covering the siege of the city of Homs," according to the Washington Post.
In Somalia, where the department has only a limited presence in the capital, Mogadishu, and is instead required to work primarily out of the Nairobi office, using third parties to deliver assets, tracking technology has been deployed to follow money and assets in real time.
Wheelchairs have been tested in BAE's wind tunnels to assess aerodynamic efficiency, manoeuvrability has been measured using tracking technology developed by F1 team McLaren, and specially moulded seats have been created by BMW.
Remotely sensed tracking technology has revealed remarkable migration patterns that were previously unknown; however, models to optimally use such data have developed more slowly.
Gino P. Menchini, commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, said that tracking technology has improved so much that the city is now studying a host of uses for it, including in police cars and ambulances, and even taxis.
A novel radioactive tracking technology has been developed to answer this need.
