The technological divide between modern humans and Neanderthals, which now looks to us so enormous, may have seemed a great deal smaller fifty millennia ago, perhaps to the point of non-existence.
Meanwhile, those on the less-advantaged side of the technological divide continued to develop counterstrategies for asymmetrical warfare, whereby unconventional means might be used to overcome more technically advanced adversaries.
Who would have thought that the technological divide between teenagers, who love to send text messages, and their parents, some who are just learning how to do so on their cellphones, would have been such a hot topic in Sunday's paper?
This cultural and technological divide between the developers who implement the final code and just about everyone else is a key point of friction for building apps.
Professor Harald Haas, of Edinburgh University, says LiFi can work underwater and could address the so-called "technological divide" using roof panels meaning our smartphones and laptops could communicate with lightbulbs.
The 7.5-inch, 1,200 x 900 pixel configurable and mesh-networkable notebook, which runs a Fedora Linux distro powered by a 400MHz AMD Geode processor, is meant to supply kids in developing countries with a super-cheap way to access the Internet and bridge the so-called technological divide.
This can be deduced by standardizing the catching capacity of North Sea herring fishing vessels across the technological divide from sail to motor-powered vessels.
Besides, Africa will someday cross the technological divide that will make resolution of ensuing ethical issues urgent, which health care providers will no longer be able to ignore.
We may infer that the limited free time among parents of young children is a stronger factor in influencing retention than the technological divide that one might expect to be an impediment for older adults.
It is worth noting that although this paper divides technological innovation into two types (radical and incremental), it does not mean that the former is more beneficial to regional economic development than the other.
