But quite a few are getting a technological face-lift.
This paper presents a simple, systematic, and integrated methodology to analyse the expected Levelised Cost Of Electricity (LCOE) generation of a new nuclear technology facing significant technological uncertainty.
High-technology companies that discover new technological opportunities face two critical decisions: whether and when to collaborate in exploiting these opportunities.
It argues that countries at different levels of industrial and technological development face very different economic costs and benefits from stronger IPRs.
Several of the leading metropolitan areas, by virtue of their strong technological base, face short-term stress because of a collapse in New Economy stock prices and a sudden supply overhang in the telecommunications and electronics sectors.
The various systems demonstrated to date have been described, highlighting some of the technological barriers facing the technology.
From the beginning, he notes, they were convinced that in addition to individual grants the technological challenges facing neuroscience today require coordinated "big science" investments in technology, such as the national telescopes and particle accelerators that revolutionized astronomy and physics.
Like other major technological changes facing society today, the problem will not be whether or not technology can accomplish a certain feat but whether our nation's leaders fully understand the moral, social and political consequences of utilizing such technologies.
The technological burdens facing the pollsters are expanding.
The board had originally charged that Ms. Sullivan was not handling the escalating financial and technological pressures facing colleges rapidly enough.
On that occasion, she characterized the Internet as "the biggest technological challenge facing parents and children today," calling it "an instrument of enormous danger".
