They also suggested the nature of campaigning had changed – with technology offering more cost-effective and environmentally-friendly ways to promote party messages.
"We're extremely proud that the proposal includes the Royal Mint's Integrated Secure Identification System (iSis) technology, offering greater currency security at a lower cost".
Sky also made an expensive gamble on innovative digital technology, offering viewers at home the ability to change camera angles and replay goals using remote controls.
The Clinton administration has sought to persuade North Korea to abandon its sale of missile technology, offering assistance in agriculture and public health in return.
Biometrics might not be a particularly new feature, even on mobiles (Motorola's Atrix 4G had one back in 2011) but it seems likely that Apple will popularise the technology, offering smooth integration and making mobile purchases more convenient.
Other career-break veterans echoed that advice, and found that with technology offering more ways to stay in touch, the naysayers often became armchair travelers through Facebook updates and blog posts.
Just days ago, Micah Richards, a Manchester City player, closed his Twitter account because, he said, it had been used to heap racial abuse on him — an example, perhaps, of technology offering a digital bullhorn to amplify hate speech.
It includes not just writing software, designing computer systems and operating data centers, but also working at retail stores that sell technology, offering support services and doing CAD design.
Animation studios' desire to cut costs and production time, coupled with advances in video-game graphics technology offering the potential for photo-realistic "cinematic computing" could, he believes, eventually allow machinima to take over the animated-film business.
"With technology offering so many new ways of doing things, there was a brief period where we were trying to do everything and editorial staff were getting overwhelmed," she says.
It helped that the House Administration Committee, which has oversight of office equipment and expenses, had already been testing mobile technology, offering BlackBerry pagers to all new members at their orientation last November.
