The earlier adoption of Internet Protocol (IP) products in security is used as a case study for how the industry is often behind the mainstream of technology but eventually catches up.
In hindsight, it's easy to pinpoint the mainstreaming of a technology on a single event, like the launch of the first iPhone.
R3, which opened the first tranches of the company's planned $200 million financing exclusively to members of the consortium, is one standard-bearer for the mainstreaming of blockchain technology.
According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Wearable Future report released late last year, "both the consumer market and the business to business (B2B) market stand to be radicalized by the mainstreaming of wearable technology".
That may change with the further mainstreaming of visualization technologies or mobile devices.
Based on the SIA Semiconductor Industry Associationn) roadmap, it seems likely that CMOS will remain the mainstream of IC technology even after 2014 and has many years to go (http://www.semiconductors.org/, http://www.itrs.net/).net/
As a result, in such countries as China, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, small-scale and economic domestic biogas plants have become the mainstream of biogas technology and are widely used by people in rural areas in the household mode (Tomar 1995; Bhat et al. 2001; Singh and Maharjan 2003; Alam 2008; Gautam et al. 2009; Chen et al. 2010; Dimpl 2010).
The recent breakthrough of high multiplexing has moved the SNP array into the mainstream of genotyping technology.
This is despite the fact that there must be a greater audience than ever — a very mainstream one — for the kind of technology criticism that the Web pioneer Dave Winer seeks, which provides "perspective on what I've seen, and more to think about," much like a movie, book, or any other cultural artifact.
They want to bring this kind of technology into the mainstream, as a new way to enjoy music.
Protection against these risks should be mainstreamed into considerations about the inclusion of technology to follow the principle of do no harm.
