Ever since a group of graduate engineering students at MIT took a Second World War project to create a flight simulator and used it to build Project Whirlwind, the world's first interactive computer, supposedly rational technology people have followed the grail of interactive computing right over a cliff.
Nationalism called to our irrational impulses to assuage wrongs brought by (rational) technology and economics.
"It's a convergence of technologies that have all... finally gotten good enough that rational engineering of proteins has really kind of come back," the younger Siegel says.
Overall, our results are encouraging and the combination of structure-oriented rational prodrug engineering and nanoparticle-based technology may facilitate the further development of effective drug delivery systems.
Will the next-generation detergent proteases be based on new backbones different from subtilisins, or will the use of all available technologies (rational design, directed evolution and exploitation of natural diversity) yield improved subtilisins, ending the current era dominated by high alkaline subtilisins?
It evoked the rational mechanics of technology and industrial production.
The Model 3 has an unrivaled emotional component that resonates beyond the rational appeal the technology offers.
Seeing these policies make their way through the political process, the markets have responded with an exuberantly rational crash of technology stocks.
However, emphasizing too much the role of unarticulated knowledge, of 'rules of thumb' as they are often called, easily underplays the importance of rational methods in technology.
