A lot has changed in the interim, with new restraints being imposed on the use of technology, including the banning of the plasticised skinsuits worn so successfully by Team GB.
It is often assumed that the risks posed by contexts can be mitigated by procedural requirements or controls imposed on the use of the technology.
It's worth remembering that it was compulsory licensing of technology imposed on the old Ma Bell in the mid-20th century that led to wide licensing of the microprocessor innovations created by Bell Labs.
Likewise, communitarians can be repelled by technologies imposed on the group by entities they deem untrustworthy.
She was something imposed on the world, like so much new technology, not anything it ever really wanted.
I suspect this is the most frustrating impact of the limitations we impose on the use of technology.
Chemical Looping Combustion CLCC) has arisen during last years as a very promising combustion technology for power plants and industrial applications, with inherent CO2 capture which reduces the energy penalty imposed on other competing technologies.
President Bill Clinton's administration decided not to impose, on the Internet and wireless technologies, century-old regulations designed for copper networks.
This article originallYetppeared on VICE UK.
But there remains hope for a deal that would spare Google the arduous court orders and huge fines once imposed on Microsoft, another U.S. technology titan that ran afoul of European competition laws more than a decade ago.
