Corporations seized on this as a way to squeeze more productivity out of each worker, and technology companies like Microsoft obliged them by transforming the computer into a hub for every conceivable office task, and laying on the available information with a trowel.
This can also extend to the workplace, where co-workers and technology can thwart efforts to focus on one thing.
With the goal of promoting "indigenous innovation," China has set product standards and procurement preferences that are a disadvantage to American workers, companies and technology, many economists believe.
The plucking model presumes that after a recession, the economy returns to an underlying trend rate of growth that is determined by the supply of workers, capital and technology.
Romanian Startups, an online group of over 13,000 IT workers, entrepreneurs, and technology journalists ran a poll asking its members whether they agreed with the idea that Romania has an innovation problem.
With over 400 years of infrastructure, workers, experience and technology, The District is making it easier for designers to set up 100% U.S.-based supply chains.
Objectively, to a degree: places with skilled workers and high technology tend to make reliable stuff; countries with clear laws and clean politicians are more trustworthy.
