Whether a design is a work of art, intended to provoke a reflection or succession of emotions in the viewer, or an engineering system, intended to meet a technological need, there is a motivation.
I imagine a Paleoindian cultural landscape defined, not just by the distribution of food and non-food resources, but also other people, to propose that mobility and exchange both contributed to the patterns of toolstone conveyance we see, perhaps operating at different scales in relation to subsistence, technological, and social motivations.
The lesson is that, given a hard deadline, sufficient resources and proper motivation, technological problems have technological solutions.
Unlike traditional development programs, which are driven by governments, multilateral organizations such as the World Bank and global charities, the challenge of connectivity is best addressed by the private sector, which is the only place with the technological chops, economic motivation and balance sheet to make a statistically significant impact.
Motivation: Technological advances have enabled the identification of an increasingly large spectrum of single nucleotide variants within the human genome, many of which may be associated with monogenic disease or complex traits.
Readers then were skeptical of Seldes's claims about cinema in particular for many of the same reasons that contemporary critics dismiss games -- they were suspicious of cinema's commercial motivations and technological origins, concerned about Hollywood's appeals to violence and eroticism, and insistent that cinema had not yet produced works of lasting value.
Perhaps if the motivation for technological innovation were something other than ease or profit, we would all be better off?
In this paper we examine the impact of ecological motivation and technological innovations on the long-term behavior of a closed-loop supply chain with recycling activities.
Regulators still don't have the financing, motivation or technological chops to keep much of a watch on financial markets and avert the next crisis.
Motivation: Recent technological advances allow the measurement, in a single Hi-C experiment, of the frequencies of physical contacts among pairs of genomic loci at a genome-wide scale.
