When I spoke the other day to Jon Gosier, the director of SwiftRiver, he said something peculiar: that digital technology is, in a way, bringing us back to the days before the printing press.
But our peculiar understanding of "technology" is often grounded by our own place in temporality... When, in 1904, aviator Alberto Sasked-Dumont asked Louis Cartier to grant him the ability to tell the time whilst keeping both hands on his plane's controls, he may have marvelled at Cartier's innovation of strapping a clock to his wrist.
Are organisations prone to a peculiar blindness around technology, failing to anticipate difficulties until it's too late?
Features peculiar to laser technology offer some advantages over more traditional processes, but, like all processes, it has its limitations.
The rise of software that is so tied to the basic communications functions delivered by the Internet has resulted in some peculiar changes in the technology landscape.
It is a book about loneliness, in other words, and about the peculiar shapes into which technology can bend our experience of being solitary".
The peculiar reality of a technology company that operates at the size and scale of Microsoft — and Google, and Apple — isn't merely that it must continue to grow its sales and user base but that it must also continually expand its spheres of influence; its technology must touch and mediate everything.
The International Space Station is the first space human outpost and over the last 15 years, it has represented a peculiar environment where science, technology and human innovation converge together in a unique microgravity and space research laboratory.
Usually, strategies as such are based on common features upon which the common images rely (e.g., the place of production, the technology adopted, one peculiar resource used).
We furthermore discuss the fact that NPEs are peculiar players on markets for technology insofar as they are solely interested in the exclusion right, not in the underlying knowledge.
