Over the last two centuries, the pace of technological change has increased dramatically, influencing every aspect of work and home life--climate control, refrigeration, telephones, radio, electric illumination, televisions, autos, jets, computers, the internet, smart phones, search engines, industrial agriculture..
Asiana officials declined to discuss cockpit culture or any confusion about the jet's computer controls.
High-speed jet aircraft, computers, radar, nuclear submarines, communication satellites, space vehicles all these are products of the past few decades.
Airbus pilots make the jets climb, descend and bank with slight movements of the joystick, while the jet's computers automatically adjust the elevators and other control surfaces so that the plane flies smoothly on its course.
Its jets, coffee, computers, environmental activism and philanthropy have all been celebrated for remaking the globe.
In America, you have really great stuff like super-cool fighter jets and computer-operated drones and really great smart bombs.
He worked on F-15 Eagle jets as a computer technician before leaving the military in 1990.
In his Introduction, Sims writes about the escapism provided by these stories, in which criminals operated in a world with "no television, no jet planes, no computers," and had to rely on their cunning rather than guns and technology.
With its emphasis on global positioning devices, Jet Skis and computer-designed surfboards, Mr. Boston's film is very much concerned with the stuff and very little with the spirit of professional surfing as practiced today.
These days, as consumer electronics are increasingly seen by students as academic and social necessities, everything from CD players, bubble jet printers and computers to portable DVD's, large-screen televisions and electronic keyboards are finding their way into dorms.
That is especially the case in Asia, where Mr. DiMaggio's staff arranges for passenger jets to carry computer parts, cellphones, semiconductors and the like in their cargo compartments, usually to the United States.
