In one sense, the new coordination technologies enable us to return to the preindustrial organizational model of tiny, autonomous businesses businesses of one or of a few conducting transactions with one another in a market.
The sculptor – all that has been revealed about her is that she is female, and that she loves books – made her first startling appearances last year, leaving intricate paper models of a tiny Ian Rankin in a cinema, a model of a gramophone and a coffin and a detailed paper tree around Edinburgh.
A discovery by Australian scientists will force astronomers to rethink their models of pulsars, tiny stars that fling radio beams into the universe as they spin.
Achieving fuel economy standards proposed by the Obama administration will be a particular challenge for exclusive luxury and sports-car makers like Mercedes and Porsche, which cannot offset thirstier models with sales of tiny economy cars.
"What I plan to do here," Jayne explains, wielding a freeze-dried bat and a model of a tiny man, "is take the wings off.
Now that it's proven out its model of deploying tiny satellites to circle the planet in low orbit, the company has brought on some additional capital and hired veteran tech executive Tom Barton as its COO.
This article describes modelling and measurement of tiny liquid flows of the order of microlitres through mililitres per minute.
In a new exhibition, which opens today and will run through Oct. 29, the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan has recreated some of the stark grandeur of the Gobi in a diorama that includes life-size models of dinosaurs and tiny mammals living there 80 million years ago.
In future, some of the cameras might even be able to crawl or fly to fill in further detail.Constructing detailed, real-time three-dimensional models of places from swarms of tiny cameras a virtual model of a real scene would have mind-boggling applications.
