Sentences with phrase «accelerating technological progress»

And for the first time in a century, the accelerating technological progress of electric cars raised the prospect of technology competition aimed squarely at the citadel of oil demand — the transportation sector.

Yesterday's steam locomotives once accelerated technological progress and then went into oblivion.

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Niche - altering technological progress, meanwhile, is rapid and accelerating.

The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us — and that their creations will eventually eclipse them.

Coined by futurist Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil's Law, otherwise known as the Law of Accelerating Returns, states that building on past accomplishments, the pace of technological change doubles every decade — leading to a Moore's Law vision of progress.

(i.e. technological progress is accelerating so quickly that, if unhindered, will produce home computers smarter than the entire human population combined by 2050, thus easily solving and creating far worse problems than AGW along the way) Thanks!

Such examples suggest that holding technological progress back could do far more environmental damage than accelerating it.