Sentences with phrase «more modern communications technology»

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The mailrooms of the more successful electronic church practitioners are paragons of modern communication technology.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Whether it is talking about football, thrashing out work problems or simply flirting, many of the things that happen at work could cease to occur if we became more dependent on modern communications technology.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communication for the Modern Language Association and a visiting professor at New York University in New York City who studies how networked communication technologies affect scholarship, found in her experiments that, for authors, interactive peer review is «more work than a traditional review process,» she says.

In the modern age of high - speed communication technologies, the Internet has connected more people than any other medium except perhaps television.

Today both urban and remote Aboriginals and their community controlled organisations have continued their Songlines and cultural practices by embracing and adopting modern communication technology including satellite television / radio, video making, locally produced television, the internet and more recently social media.