In the modelling for the 2008 review, my team and I had to make assumptions
about technological improvement, and we did assume some improvement in the new technologies.
Not exact matches
Google uses the Nexus range to give other Android manufacturers ideas
about the kind of design and
technological improvements that should make it into phones.
About 3 dozen taxonomists, informatics experts, ecologists, sociologists, and computer scientists met this week at the New York Botanical Garden and decided that in the past decade,
technological improvements — primarily related to molecular tools and the digitization of collections (such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library)-- make such a major undertaking possible.
Just
about all of the
improvements and additions to the equipment list for the 2018 Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback are centered around improving
technological appeal.
I've read
about issues regarding that very implementation leading to difficulties for the poor world wide, although I'm not sure that would be the result due to
technological improvements.
But there's an obvious argument that, having gone this far, it would make sense to keep going after 2050 with the aim of restoring the pre-industrial level (278 ppm) by a combination of massive reforestation,
improvements in land use and, if necessary,
technological measures to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (there are some ideas
about already and this would be the last cab off the rank, giving decades to turn them into workable options).
Some of these choices bring performance or comfort
improvements, others are purely
about aesthetics, and some are harder to pinpoint... Bottom line, there are all kinds of reasons for picking one vehicle over another, and these can certainly include environmental reasons,
technological ones (early adopters wanting to be first to ride this wave), or psychological ones (on top of the other benefits, many find it more pleasurable to drive plug - in vehicles than gas ones).
A. I've written
about this in a few places now (here's one), but I think we need to be equipping lawyers better in terms of collaboration, customer service, empathy, financial literacy, process
improvement, and
technological affinity, among other things.
When asked why participants avoid recommending our profession, the most common responses include: regulatory overload, work load compression, and the sins associated with hourly billing as it relates to
technological improvements and efficiencies via technology (think
about the reduced time it takes to complete a tax return using software today then say 30 years ago when we filled in bubble sheets on CompuTax forms, or even 50 years ago when we prepared returns by hand and typed the values onto the forms).