Numerous studies of vehicle emission control policies suggest that, in many cases, technology and "technological optimism" shaped the policy process.
Nye — a professor of history and the chair of the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark — has long studied how technological innovation shapes culture.
"He has broad experience — with successful senior leadership roles in all of Walmart's business segments — and a deep understanding of the economic, social and technological trends shaping our world".
Cities have always been hubs of technological experimentation, shaped by the people who inhabit them and the tools they use.
In this paper, we show how complex interdependencies and the uncertain nature of technological change shape the process of targeted policy interventions in socio-technical systems.
As technological advances shape society, an individual might be able to resist the effects but his lifestyle will "always be lonely and in the end futile"; despite a few holdouts, technology will nevertheless shape economics which, in turn, will shape society.
There's an underexamined technological determinism that shapes discussions about the end of film and obscures that the material is being phased out not because digital is superior, but because this transition suits the bottom line.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the differentiated impact of demand-pull and technology-push policies in shaping technological patterns in the biofuels sector.
It is in cities that the largest technological networks take shape and where the "miraculous promise" of technology most quickly spreads.1 It is here that we unwisely place our trust in an improbable restoration of the past and/or in a new renaissance.
Heyday is a breathless tour of that territory, and the decade-long economic and technological boom that shaped the lie of its land.
The strange part is that we now have technological powers to shape our environment that were unimaginable to earlier generations, yet we don't use them with a realistic view of the brain's weaknesses.
