Mr. Page's remarks ranged from the need to encourage children to pursue computer science to competition and negativity in the technology industry and people's resistance to technological change.
My resistance to technological innovation has a solid basis in biology.
Given these institutions' traditional resistance to technological innovation in refereeing, it seems unlikely that they would start such discussion.
That is because managers and employees who fear that their ox will be gored are the biggest sources of resistance to technological and organizational change.
Another view of this is that fixing the Hubble, for all the good work it has done in the past, represents sticking with the status quo and resistance to technological change.
His quest to emulate the United States' success in hydraulic fracturing to tap underground reserves is much closer to home, touching the emotive ties that bind an island nation to its land and evoking a resistance to technological advance recalling the Luddites who battled change in the textile industry in the early 19th century.
The use of aluminum and aluminum alloys as raw materials has been increasing in the last decades due to their several excellent mechanical properties (such as tensile strength, hardness or corrosion resistance) and technological properties (such as excellent castability or finish turning).
Facing more and more public resistance to technological projects and risk-based decision-making in the 1970's and 80's, technicians and experts tended to present their own views as objective and rational assessments of the real risks, whereas the views of laypeople were presented as a false understanding of reality resulting from a subjective, intuitive, emotional and irrational perception.
Critics question the accuracy of their calculations, saying they do not account for all the factors that can affect a rider's performance, including not only wind and rolling resistance, but also technological advancements in bikes and clothing, riding efficiency and team dynamics.
With this in mind, this article examines the factors of regime destabilisation and forms of regime resistance in past technological transitions in energy and transport.
