Clayton Christensen described how new, simple technologies can upend a market.
Nonetheless, there are ways around this by using three simple technologies and a variety of existing resources.
Simple technologies – such as improved seeds, irrigation and fertiliser – could treble productivity, triggering transformational growth in the agricultural sector.
It began with light manufacturing, using simple technologies that did not require a long apprenticeship to master.
Before Spanish colonization, Xinca people used relatively simple technologies and social organization, particularly when compared to neighbouring Mayan peoples.
"In a nutshell, this was the big idea about aging at this year's C.E.S.: how to use mostly simple technologies to gather information and detect warning signs".
"We have developed simple technologies, labor-intensive technologies, so that these materials can be produced at the municipal level by small, efficient businesses," Mr. Martirena said.
Electrolyzers are fairly simple technologies: water is mixed with potassium hydroxide electrolyte and made to flow past a stack of electrodes.
Simple technologies, such as a personal phone call can help motivate a virtual worker, knowing they are not out of sight, out of mind.
Their construction employed simple technologies based on manual labor which often resulted in inferior quality of work.
Low-cost and simple technologies are needed to reduce watershed export of excess nitrogen to sensitive aquatic ecosystems.
