"Our technology modernizes existing canal infrastructure," Mr. Aughton said.
Currently in San Francisco, he is a Product Manager at Blend, a financial technology startup modernizing the mortgage and consumer lending industry.
After six years, he points to results that include the nation's largest SMART City technology deployment, modernizing and expanding public transit including a downtown streetcar system, a 20percentt improvement in third grade reading proficiency, and a twenty-year infrastructure repair package.
Yulia Yaani is the Founder and CEO of RealAtom, a technology company modernizing the commercial real estate lending industry.
Russia under President Vladimir Putin has developed new missile technology, including modernizing its "road-mobile" intercontinental ballistic missiles.
"One thing that Nassau County will definitely be spending millions of dollars on will be technology" to modernize its operations, he said.
On the other hand, investment codes introduced in the late 1980s have attracted strong foreign interest, which has enhanced technology transfer, modernized the service and financial sectors, and aided export development.
Elsewhere in this issue you will read how grape expert Terry Bates is using sensor technology to modernize vineyards and help grape growers across the country to make more informed decisions.
"We spent a lot of money to invest in technology and modernize our farms, and it's paying off," said Tadashi Mine, 59, who has been cultivating cotton since his family migrated to Brazil from Japan when he was 10 years old.
Another risk, notes Michael Krepon, the president of the Henry L. Stimson Center, which works on security issues, is that other nations "could adopt the Pakistani definition of proliferation: If the state needs to swap some nuclear technology to modernize its deterrent, that's defense, not proliferation".
