On the contrary, all these diversions, he thought, could help sabotage modernity's efforts to shove people "into an everyday life that turns them into henchmen of the technological excesses".
Like some other storytellers intent on setting the record straight or at least a bit less crooked, Mr. Cave and Mr. Hillcoat occasionally and temporarily lose their way by letting the technological excesses of the present swamp the grim excesses of the past.
Döblin's experiences during the First World War, when he served in Alsace as a military doctor, left their mark on the novel: psychically damaged veterans, devastated landscapes, and all-destructive technological excesses give this novel its particularly apocalyptic feeling.
Light pollution of Long Island's night skies ["Night's Light Dims Stars and Irks Residents," July 15] is another consequence of technological innovation applied to excess, just as was cell phone use behind the wheel.
In America, though — and in the UK, so it's not just about "excess" national wealth — these technological advantages are being swamped by something else, some kind of cost disease apparently unique to the English-speaking developed world.
In the early 1990s the industry had excess capacity due to technological advances, competition from other materials and an economic slowdown.
A "not-sold-here" culture, which refers to negative attitudes to outward technology transfer, is influenced by excess of empathy and jealousy that envelops the process of research and technological development.
There is no more time to wait for some other technological solution, or to pretend that our current excesses won't haunt our children.
Then it is washed with water to remove excess intercalant and dried to obtain its technological properties (see Fig. 2).
