The whole technology argument is dead.
Roger Pielke, Jr., then reacts to Victor's comment (it's excerpted here, with a link to the full reaction set up as a standalone document): It is important to understand the degree to which the "we can do this with existing technology" argument has taken root in both U.S. and international politics.
A distant relative of this technology argument is that the income gap is becoming permanent and aggravated because IQs are becoming more polarized.
Philip Redman, wireless mobile communications analyst for Boston's Yankee Group, says, "[Qualcomm] rolled out not only a technology argument, saying that their technology was going to be 30 times better than the competition's, but they also said 'ours is American technology,' " ratcheting up the debate into a virtual trade war.
A public debate of some sort usually does not exist because with emerging technologies, arguments have to be developed over incalculable consequences from procedures and products that do not yet exist or never may come into life.
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We know nothing of their crimes and what they've done in the past, so what we're left to think about is their experience of near constant surveillance, appropriate at a time when the omnipresence of technology and arguments about national security have brought privacy concerns into our daily lives.
Huge advances in technology, the argument goes, can enable doctors from different hospitals, different fields and even in different states to work off a single electronic file that would include every medical decision and diagnosis in a given patient's history.
Beware new technologies whose arguments are rooted in something that happened decades ago.
The report also states "Composers and performers are entitled to earn a living from their creative endeavours" which parallels Ethan Kaplan's (VP Technology, Warner Bros. Records) argument that the quality of music shouldn't matter when it comes to compensation to the artist.
