In process, the technological adoption (rating 4) is essential as compared to the existing technology.
What does it (or the existing technology that replaced it) cost today?
Jeff Chamberlain, his deputy, is more bullish about the existing technology.
So Edison adapted all the existing technology, including Starr's patent, and created the first system of electric lighting.
One of the teenagers on the sinking boat made a 12-second cellphone call, but 911 operators did not have the existing technology in place to trace it.
In the late 19th century, the challenge was getting completely new kinds of grids up and working; today it is expanding, upgrading and managing the existing technology.
The antimissile systems are considered less than reliable, and some administration officials were reluctant to pour additional resources into deploying more of the existing technology.
The existing technology is so expensive that it can either be applied to highly sophisticated projects, like the components of Formula One cars, or to small objects.
These tend to make the dominant firm less aggressive in investing in new technologies in essence, because its monopoly with the existing technology is less likely to be challenged.
It was 100 times faster and 100 times cheaper than the existing technology.
Many contaminated subsurface sites cannot be economically decontaminated due to the limitations in the existing technology.
