And out that seismic, epochal change, social influence, a delicate concept, rises in importance.
Toshiba is sure to benefit as NAND rises in importance; but of course, Masuoka will not see any of that money.
Open-source software has been a growing phenomenon for more than two decades, but in recent years it has risen in importance in a whole new way: as a key to rapid innovation for startups and corporate giants alike.
Mobile is a challenge for Alibaba, since it makes more money from desktop-based users, but the growth of smartphones means it continues to rise in importance.
The playacting that was still a novelty in 1960 is the meat of the presidential campaign today, but its rise in importance is relatively recent.
It became a Roman colony in 89 bce and rapidly rose in importance because it was at the junction of main roads between Italy and northern Europe.
But as issues such as migration and the economy have risen in importance, it has found itself surge from strength to strength.
Its new centres in Germany were the splendid courts of secular and ecclesiastical princes, whence it was distributed to favoured groups: the nobility, rising in importance again but finding its function limited to the service of rulers, and the upper bourgeoisie, shifting its loyalty from guild hall to palace.
The inexorable increase in the absolute and relative importance of electricity means that its transportation and management will collaterally rise in importance in our ever more electric and information-centric economy.
In the 9th century, the office of the Domestic, or "Domesticate" (δομεστικάτον, domestikaton), of the Schools rose in importance and its holder was often appointed as the head of the army in the absence of the emperor.
The evidence from St Martin's indicates that smallpox rose in importance among children in parallel with its decline in adults.
