And Pope Francis cautions against the tendency to think that technological progress automatically means every kind of progress, for it may in fact mean, above all, more ways of killing people and destroying the earth.
This means that when technological change does happen, raising labor productivity, at least some of the gains of that greater productivity are passed on to workers instead of going to the owners of capital in the form of profits.
Which means that increasingly, our technological infrastructure will be designed to enforce policy against its users, without its users' consent or even knowledge.
The U.S. widely won the competition for 4G technologies, but the rise of Huawei as a dominant force in the wireless equipment space means that competition for technological leadership has never been more keen.
Disruptive means that the new technological solution would disrupt existing but weaker solutions.
In the context of the present case, this appears to mean that current technological progress enabling the Government more easily to use an individual's compelled statements against him in a criminal prosecution should be matched by frank judicial contraction of the privilege against self-incrimination lest the Government be hindered in using modern technology further to reduce individual privacy.
This means that some form of technological control is also required.
Widespread use of renewable energy is still a new thing, which means that even without major technological breakthroughs we can expect to see big further cost reductions as industries move "down the learning curve" — that is, find better and cheaper ways to operate as they accumulate experience.
As funding because tighter and tighter, it means that the rate of technological innovation will likely speed up, out of necessity to find new ways to make internet companies profitable quickly.
The open-ended nature of scientific and technological development means that matters such as the legal definition of a technology within a given jurisdiction are often left open-ended in newly formulated legislation.
