All of this has given designers and engineers a fast-forward button advancing this technological flip-flop.
The cellphone Zorina Bluth produces from her pocket is a relic by modern technological standards — a flip phone that is more than five years old.
It seems that some young employees are now guilty of the technological equivalent of wearing flip-flops: they are writing company e-mail as if they were texting cellphone messages with their thumbs.
But we think there's a flip side to the story of technological harm.
What exactly do you do when your opponents are willing to flip over cars to stop any technological progress?
In Texas and several other states, technological flaws led to some votes reportedly getting flipped from one candidate to another.
But there's a flip side to the argument that this technological innovation is good for the country.
He introduces the concept of technological resistance when hackers and users design and deploy technologies that allows access to digital content despite technological protection mechanisms as the flip side to the technological enforcement represented by digital copy protection and a crucial tactic for the movement.
Frankly, if I have to read one more gargantuan forecast on the next-gen console wars, I think I'll flip out and go into some kind of psycho-technological meltdown.
And this whole technological up-graph, from the discovery of fire onwards, may get retrospectively flipped into a huge down-blip in overall human fortunes if it transpires we were gradually making the planet uninhabitable.
They are menaced by "bit rot," in which the zeroes and the ones in which digital data is recorded mysteriously flip; by certain unstable storage devices (USB drives, for example); and by the more serious threat of technological obsolescence.
