Most American novelists portray technology as scary stuff; they fill the sky with toxic clouds and screaming rockets.
They treated inventors as heroes and portrayed technology as the deux ex machina that would solve America's social ills.
By focusing on tangible things – smartphones, tablets, Google Glass, embedded sensors, wearable devices, social networking services, and so on – it portrays technology as gadgetry, much as earlier generations misrepresented (and misunderstood) the significance of solid state electronics by calling portable radios "transistors".
The film portrays new technologies as a natural and expected outcome of human development and indication of health and growth.
Silicon Valley's E.V. entrepreneurs portray their technology as a fundamental discontinuity, a break from Detroit's hidebound traditions.
Visionary video prototypes are most effectively used to portray future technology concepts and scenarios such as those involving multiple modalities in conjunction with multisensory interaction.
West also had complaints with the way the President portrayed cloning technology, which West believes will be vital to using stem cells as therapies.
The technology portrayed on "Alias" is part of the show's appeal, and even if not all of it is real, it's still believable.
Wan Gang, a former Audi engineer in Germany who is now China's minister of science and technology, portrayed the country's electric car initiative as central to China's international competitiveness, but said that there were environmental goals as well.
The inevitability of continued demand for fossil fuel based power generation is not problematized, and CCS is instead portrayed as a technology whose only risks and uncertainties are technical in kind and thus controllable by experts.
