Given the then-prevailing technological state of arts in production processes, the policy and enabling-technology breakthroughs above mentioned sparked a powerful cycle of fragmentation, especially in manufacturing, with a corresponding cross-border spread of GVCs.
Max Weber, the tragic prophet of modernity, saw the bureaucratic and technological state as an "iron cage" in which we live as "specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart".
Only in recent years have large numbers of technology companies and their workers based themselves in urban San Francisco instead of the suburban Silicon Valley, and the resulting conflicts between the long-term bohemian population and these wealthy new arrivals have exposed its real, underdeveloped technological state.
Architecture is also a product of the technological state of its time.
These principles guide machine designers to reduce residual risks as much as the technological state of the art permits.
The contemporary economic and technological state of affairs and its foreseeable development restricts extraction of geothermal energy to the upper few kilometers of the Earth's crust.
It implies not only the commercialization of a major advance in the technological state of the art, but also "includes the utilization of even small-scale changes in technological know-how".
The labor market is endogenously segmented between workers having the required ability level to occupy jobs where the productivity is indexed to the technological state via on-the-job training (complex jobs) and the rest of workers, who are employed in positions where productivity is relatively deteriorated in case of technological change due to the absence of on-the-job training (simple jobs).
Don't neglect the banal everyday objects help to rebuild a picture of life as it once was, revealing what people did in times now gone and can tell you things such as the level of wealth or lack of it, the technological state of the community and the reliance on local or imported products.
Doug Church later downplayed the importance of the game's technology, stating that technological advancement "is somewhat inevitable in our field... [and] sadly, as an industry we seem to know much less about design, and how to continue to extend and grow design capabilities".
