As we wrap ourselves tighter in the mantle of our imaginations, using technological filters to shape the world in gleaming virtual environments, brutal realities can begin to seem more like inconveniences than immovable facts of modern life.
Alices was about control and how we moderate our lives, but also how our technological filtering can lead to cacophony, insanity, and a world that's less footed in reality than anything Carroll ever created.
Growth was rapid in the aftermath of the Second World War, as Europe was reconstructed, and some of the benefits of pre-war technological change filtered through to the economy; then from the mid-1960s onwards, the baby boomers joined the workforce.
"It's not just new laws that governments are developing to increase control, but they are relying heavily on technological solutions to filter and block access to a variety of content and tools such as web 2.0 applications like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
You may want to include "-computer" (a minus sign and then the word "computer") in order to filter out technological mice.
Nowadays, a lot of researches have been focused on silver nanoparticles because of their important scientific and technological applications in color filters [13, 14], optical switching [15], optical sensors [16, 17], and especially in surface-enhanced Raman scattering [18 20].
It's actually a very simple idea — the filter, from a technological point of view — because it's all about the size of the holes.
"If you step back and look at the complete picture, there's a sense that they've had the technological and economic capacity to filter content," he says.
On the subject of cyberbullying, Costolo spoke of ongoing experiments with technological solutions that would better filter out "egregious, obvious harassment," noting that the challenge facing the company is in finding a scalable solution to that problem.
The carriers said they had agreed not to begin making restricted content available until they had developed filters and other technological tools that would enable parents to prevent children from getting access to inappropriate material.
