They range from the Internet and laser eye surgery technologies to scores of our most significant technological advances like GPS and the breast-cancer vaccine just announced.
Not coincidentally, though, this politically sheltered industry is also devoid of significant technological advances.
But without a significant technological advance such projects will be expensive and may take many years to have any significant effect.
Ms. Feldt called the drug "the most significant technological advance in women's reproductive health care since the birth control pill".
Significant technological advances are rapidly changing the telecommunications and media industries, and giving a bigger role to Washington policy makers in determining industry winners and losers.
It is these digital ties, experts say, that may represent the most significant technological advance the United States has brought to the war in Iraq.
Getting there will require significant technological advances — more gas-electric hybrids, more all-electric vehicles, bigger and better batteries, lighter (but equally strong) body materials, like aluminum.
The dictator sponsored public education, restored public credit, subsidized agriculture, promoted international trade, and laid the groundwork for an era of significant technological advance.
The basic design of honey bee housing is essentially unchanged since L. L. Langstroth patented his movable frame hive in 1852; artificial insemination of queens, the last significant technological advance in beekeeping, was introduced early in the 20th century.
Britain may have been a few centuries late in adopting one of mankind's most significant technological advances, but archaeologists have just discovered that when we finally did get the wheel, we at least made them bigger than anyone else.
