Technological change 3D printing and robotics, for example—or the emergence of shale oil and gas as cheap forms of energy may deliver a big boost.
Look ahead a few centuries for what is still the paradigm of technological revolutions, printing from movable type.
As well as offering us a new platform for practical, artistic, and technological exploration, "Printed Optics," as Disney Research Pittsburgh calls their new project, should be enough to effectively diminish any potential impatience with the perceived direction in which 3D printing is headed.
Much research is occasioned by communication industries, based on technological innovations in print media, film, broadcasting, and the internet.
Is the technological future preordained — printed in the circuits of today's technology — or will it surprise us? (If the latter: In a good or a bad way?) Finally, in experimenting with nature, how much are we actually experimenting with ourselves?
The growth of popular literature has paralleled the spread of literacy through education and has been facilitated by technological developments in printing.
In the event of any error, whether printing, technological or otherwise, which affects the competition in any way, the Judges reserve the right to administer the competition as though the error had not occurred.
It will take some time to convert these technological developments in printing to better treatments for patients, because challenges exist.
The potential ramifications on both innovation and patent law in the 3-D printing technological space are discussed.
The three big metaphors are linked to three big technological 'revolutions': the printing revolution initiated by Gutenberg in the 1400s; the industrial revolution grounded in new types of engines, engineering and machines that started in the 1800s and bringing with it standardised parts, mass production and assembly lines, and the computer or information revolution that began in the mid-1900s.
