We may have made heretofore unimaginable technological advances since the dawn of modern civilization, but we remain creatures full of confusion and longing and pain.
Alas, technological progress and the dawn of the CD meant the decade was barely complete before the general public started to recognise that audio cassettes were not, in fact, the medium of the future but a cumbersome, chewing-up-prone source of much annoyance.
The dawn of technological development is still inchoate.
Tackling disparities via infrastructure development, digital skills training and political education will be critical if we are to avoid the danger of a "technological apartheid at the dawn of the information age," as suggested by the influential scholar Manuel Castells in his seminal 1998 book on the future of the internet.
It wasn't helped by the fact that we're all relatively young and sprightly and hadn't accumulated much work experience before the brave new dawn of the technological revolution, er, dawned.
Each month, along with some 65,000 stock traders, technophiles, computer scientists and optical engineers, I await the arrival of an eight-page newsletter in which George Gilder -- a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, a former Male Chauvinist of the Year (as proclaimed by NOW) and currently a widely applauded (and occasionally derided) "technological guru" -- celebrates the dawn of a new age.
Even at the dawn of the technological revolution – from radio and television to the computer – Britain was playing a key role.
At the dawn of the technological age, shoe leather was the detective's principal tool, but sheer persistence could work wonders.
Ironically, the first symptoms of a dawning era of technological abundance are to be found in the growth of low-wage, low-productivity employment.
From there, each broad historical trend — the industrial revolution, the advent of newspapers, the spread of literacy and the dawning of the technological revolution — are together contributors to the same need for speed.
