Rather than imposing our technology on the rest of the world, perhaps it is us who can learn from them.
Because of limitations imposed by technology, economics and engineering geology, the excavation sections of Chinese underground mines are usually less than 15 m2 in area, and in most mines they are smaller than 10 m2, especially in Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Yunan, Sichuan and Chongqing.
The West would impose financial, technology and political sanctions.
Nevertheless, mundane limitations imposed by technology and industrial design cannot stop us from dreaming.
Drucker's integrative thinking also illuminates the special obligations imposed by technology on modern business enterprise.
There is as well a further distance imposed by technology, and this is the distance between two human hearts: the physician's and the patient's.
Putting the user first These transformations imposed by technology will probably make the library change its activity in the community following three basic principles: preserving the existing collection, organising and easing the access to new sources of information in electronic/digital format, and creating new relationships and environments in our buildings.
When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every bit as real as the constraints imposed by technology or by the requirements of incentives and efficiency.
The Federal Trade Commission is contemplating a multi-billion-dollar fine that would be the largest ever imposed on technology company, according to The Washington Post.
Both Olivier Delarue and Christopher Mikkelsen agree that it is vital not to simply impose a technology on users but instead acknowledge and refine the tools communities are already using to create solutions effectively across the digital divide.
