However, HCA technology offers one more significant technological advantage that has largely remained untapped: the induced nuclear spin hyperpolarization is independent of the MRI scanner's magnetic field.
Paul Israel, director of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., praised the discovery as a "tremendous achievement," but called Edison's phonograph a more significant technological feat.
Despite of decades of intense research in enzyme immobilization and the impressive advances achieved, it is still an active area research and development owing to a more significant technological impact.
So what we're seeing today is a breakthrough that is far more significant than the technological advancements in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing that ushered in the shale revolution.
The results point to a pattern whereby most inventors make only occasional and limited technological contributions and, instead, more significant numbers of new technological discoveries are attributable to a select group of exceptionally inventive individuals.
But more significant than the new technological capabilities ushered in by 64-bit microprocessors (it has taken Intel 15 years to use up the capabilities of the 32-bit architecture of its current microprocessors) is that all this power will move into the mass-market chipmaker's arsenal.
In the context of Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs), this problem is commonly referred to as the object-relational impedance mismatch [32], and one may argue that in a NoSQL context, such mismatch problems may be more significant due to the technological heterogeneity among NoSQL systems and the wide range of features and data models supported in NoSQL.
Getting there will require significant technological advances — more gas-electric hybrids, more all-electric vehicles, bigger and better batteries, lighter (but equally strong) body materials, like aluminum.
What is vastly more significant, however, than these oddments of technological history is the minute subdivision of productive skills and their transmission from father to son in populations adequate to the demand for iron ore from Noricum, most notably, or for glass and paper from Alexandria.
Mr. Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday that the technological achievements of the program were more significant than the new centrifuges.
More significant, perhaps, is that surveillance and the impact of technological change has seeped into popular culture, in films such as the latest Jason Bourne and television series, such as the Good Wife.
