As the food-versus-fuel debate ascended, the focus of technologies diverted to cellulose-based feedstocks, focusing on waste from wood and paper, food industries, and even stems and leaves and solid municipal waste streams.
When hackers launch an attack, Neustar's technology diverts the onslaught of traffic to Neustar's servers, which have more bandwidth capacity.
It is quite possible that the infatuation with technology has diverted money from things known to work — training better teachers, giving kids more time in school.
Instead, he said Dr. Khan had transferred the technology to divert attention from Pakistan's nuclear program and to aid other Islamic countries.
If it's found early enough – quite a few years in advance of its hitting – then NASA and the European Space Agency and other space agencies have the technology to divert the asteroid so it would miss the Earth.
One could then check their orbits to see if any are on a collision course with Earth and within 20-30 years have technology to divert any that are on course," he added.
Some brain wave researchers complain that Dr. Farwell's search for real-world applications that appear to prove the value of the technology is diverting attention from the need to do more research like the peer-reviewed 1991 paper.
Since then, not only have a handful of smaller dams been torn down, but the few new dams have generally involved a new generation of technology; water is diverted from rivers, usually just at flush times, and stored in off-stream reservoirs, causing less disruption to the ecosystem.
The long-term trend toward building supercomputing systems out of products developed for other sectors has clearly spread access to supercomputing, but some experts say the broadening of the market has diverted technology development away from the needs of hard-core users, who make up a $1 billion niche market, according to International Data.
Sales in the PC market have stagnated as consumers have diverted their technology spending to more exciting technologies, including smartphones and tablet computers like the iPad.
