Conditions previously conceived of as fate that needs to be faced become diseases experienced as illness as soon as they can be anticipated with diagnostic technologies or treated with technological interventions.
The main finding is that, despite the continued use of underperforming domestic refrigerators, continuous temperature monitoring using new technologies combined with other technological interventions significantly reduced the prevalence of accidental exposure to freezing temperatures.
Other approaches have focused on technological interventions such as information communication technologies (ICT) designed to reduce errors through reducing data bulkiness and automating data collection, validation, and analysis [ 4, 17, 18].
It could be that technology is evolving so fast that potential innovative technological interventions become outdated before they can mature sufficiently to be subjected to randomised trials.
The projects we are supporting demonstrate how simple, positive technological interventions can create momentous, positive change.
But there are concrete steps we can take right now to bolster Africa's food security, starting with proven technological interventions.
Some technological interventions, most notably various medical forms of birth control (e.g., oral contraceptives, the intrauterine device, the diaphragm, vasectomy), were common by the later 20th century.
It just so happened that the five years it took to write my book were the same years my personal life was occupied with failed pharmaceutical and technological interventions and, ultimately, pregnancy and new motherhood.
There was a TV moment, hosting five episodes of a show on a local Fox Network affiliate last fall called "My Home 2.0," in which she performed electronic domestic makeovers, the same sort of technological interventions she has practiced in her own apartment, which she shares with her boyfriend, Chris Arnold, a screenwriter and helicopter pilot she met through eHarmony.
The wisest course would be to plan technological interventions to come on the understanding that the true intelligence of the Indian city will continue to reside where it always has: in the people who live and work in it, who animate it and give it a voice.
It was to halt the unnecessary suffering that can result – and too often does – from the unfettered use of technological interventions that the Liverpool Care Pathway was devised to guide medical teams caring for patients in the final few days and hours of life.
