Which other, now moribund, technologies, tools or gadgets do generations like mine have no knowledge of?
As broadband grew, many predictions made during the boom about the value of online advertising and the volume of e-commerce, for example came true after all, albeit a few years late.A third way in which seemingly moribund technologies can be revived is through an external shock.
Despite the moribund information technology economy, the nonprofit sector may actually be benefiting from the slump -- as companies like Microsoft see donations as a way of helping keep their products in widespread use, and as large numbers of otherwise unemployed hardware and software professionals demonstrate a new willingness to take jobs in the nonprofit community.
Leonard also has enlisted microbiologist Rita Colwell, who as NSF director first proposed NEON in 2000, to help revive a moribund Science, Technology and Education Advisory Committee.
The exciting thing for the tech community is it will transform a moribund sector of technology (Health IT) by catalyzing entire new categories of software required by the new care and payment models that the DIY Health Reformers are aggressively pursuing.
The slow rollout is mainly a result of the moribund state of the technology sector, which has slowed donations to a trickle.
Exports also continued to slump amid a global slowdown and moribund demand for information-technology products worldwide.
On the one hand, thirty billion dollars, on the other some plastic knives". New technology symbolises the moribund state just as fluidity, anonymity and secrecy are the weapons of the emerging order of terrorism, travelling light and undetected.
After several years of a moribund market, investment in Chinese technology startups is en vogue again thanks in part to the soaring stock price of established players like Tencent, and the imminent listing of what could be the largest public offering in U.S. history when shares of Alibaba finally start trading.
