"The most profound technologies are those that disappear," wrote Mark Weiser, the chief technology officer of Xerox PARC, in the early 1990s.
Stating that the "most profound technologies are the ones that disappear", Pat Gelsinger Senior VP and GM of the Digital Enterprise Group for Intel set the tone for his IDF keynote speech with highlights from a future world of mobile computing.
Perhaps the most profound effect of technology on the fashion industry has been the increasing importance of spectacle.
Steve Jobs is known for many things, but arguably his most profound impact on technology was his approach to design: an emphasis on friendly, elegant minimalism.
An amazing erudite and yet highly readable account of why and how information plays such a central role in all our lives, Gleick's The Information is amongst the most profound books written about technology over the last few years.
This type of proactive, secure routing of Big Data may seem like a simple upgrade in workflow, but in actuality it represents what could be the most profound convergence of business and technology since the industrial revolution – at GE, we call it the Industrial Internet – and it is nearer than you think.
Globalization and capitalism are seen as the main reason for people's anger, but the most profound anxiety comes from disruptive new technologies such as robotization, big data, distributed ledger, artificial intelligence, and many more.
In promotional literature, Broad boasts that its technology is "the most profound innovation in human history" and that construction on a third of the world's new buildings will be done this way "in the near future". The hotel, called T-30, looms over dilapidated concrete homes interspersed with piles of garbage and rows of cabbages and leeks.
But the technology underlying it, the block chain, might be what drives the most profound, system-wide change of any nascent financial technology.
We're just at the beginning of this shift, but it will be one of the most profound and disruptive turnovers in the history of technology.
Professor Peña considered the fourth period in cinema history, namely post-1990 period, as the one having the most profound changes when the spread and adaption of digital technology has redefined what we call cinema.
