Sentences with phrase «next big technology»

What a life I would lead if only I could pick the best investments, predict the next big technology, or warn the authorities about impending natural disasters (I throw this last item in lest I be accused of using these potential powers only for personal gain!).

Previous attempts by Washington to pick the next big technology have not been successful.

Although most successes are from cold environs, some researchers are exploring how to tease out ancient DNA from the tropics while a handful of other scientists are probing what may be the next big technology — sequencing ancient proteins.

It comes just as this state, and this region, are finally seeing years of efforts to become the nation's next big technology center pay off.

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And yet, just eight years later, it seems Facebook may be turning into the very thing its founder once rejected: a still important technology company that's growing a bit long in the tooth and fighting to stay relevant by throwing stacks of money at whatever just might be the next big thing.

No, but Recon Instruments announced on June 3 that its Android - powered heads - up display (HUD) technology, MOD Live, has been selected for testing by NASA for its next generation space suits, and that's a big deal.

«The human - computer speech interface is the next big thing,» says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who says Alexa and similar systems were integrated with just about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks, cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list goes on and on.

Some have called AI the next big thing in technology — the next Internet.

These are called disruptive technologies or the next big thing, in the sense that existing markets or economies of scale are disrupted by the scope of change.

Williams, it seemed, was on his way to turning another weird technology phenomenon into the next big thing.

VR has a bright future, to be sure, but if there's one thing that we've learned from the last five years of VR being «The Next Big Thing» each year, it's that VR's handicaps make fuller adoption limited and leave the door open for a much less invasive technology with a much brighter future: augmented reality, or AR.

But in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant.

China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd plans to invest 300 billion yuan ($ 47 billion) over the next five years in a bid to become the world's third - biggest chipmaker, the chairman of the state - backed technology conglomerate said on Monday.

But startups in the sustainable technology sector offer the next wave of discoveries with potential for big returns.

In a world that's become downright obsessed with technology and the next big thing, Shavitz is something of a technology anti-hero.

But what if the next big thing isn't so much a technology as it is a way of thinking about business — an angle of vision that promises to create new kinds of markets entirely?

While Google Glass is being touted as the next big thing in technology and much of the media has pulled out their pom - poms, here are a few reasons young entrepreneurs should wait to purchase the devic...

As the next big wave of ecommerce growth happens in the B2B market, these brands are turning to their B2C peers for guidance how to take advantage of modern technology to create buying experiences that differentiate them from competitors and help them seize a greater share of the market.

Big fax makers like Pitney Bowes may well integrate Internet - link technology into the next generation of fax machines, experts say.

And that has left Emotiv with a challenge every bit as big as conquering mind reading: figuring out how to present its breakthrough device to the world in a way that will transform it from a slightly scary gadget to the next must - have consumer technology.

Although described as the next big thing in technology, the public has mostly stood by while manufacturers furiously try to refine their devices to make them more appealing.

Many in the technology sector think chatbots — interactive messaging powered by artificial intelligence (AI)-- are the next big form of communication, and their prevalence is already larger than you might expect.

Boeing is looking ahead to a brave new world where jetliners fly without pilots and aims to test some of the technology next year, the world's biggest plane maker said in a briefing ahead of the Paris Airshow.

No longer solely the purview of makers, technological tinkerers, expensive laboratories and tech geeks, 3 - D printing is quickly becoming the next big thing in technology, finding a significant foothold and making itself indispensible in industries ranging from medicine to tech accessories to farming.

In this live virtual executive roundtable, you'll: * Learn what entrepreneurs need to do to get noticed by top VC firms * Look at the most active venture capitalists in tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers, Director of Marketing Technology, VentureBeat

«New technologies will drive a larger share of market growth in the next 5 - 10 years, but the short term will also see a resurgence of growth in markets tied to 3rd Platform opportunities, including cloud services, mobility, and big data.»

Over the next five years, the biggest improvements could also come from a tectonic shift in technology.

He also sits on the boards of Facebook and Hewlett - Packard and has spent decades as a technology practitioner, innovator, investor and advisor, triangulating the future of the web and betting big on what he sees coming next.

The Creative Destruction Lab Rockies (CDL - Rockies) in the Haskayne School of Business wants to talk to researchers and graduate students who are working on potential «next big things» in science and technology that could be commercialized.

Sometimes we say we embrace technology to serve the next generation, but this is a big mistake.

Back in 2008 so - called Satoshi Nakomoto took the game to the next level, and in nine years later, blockchain technology has enabled businesses and individuals to revolutionize the conduct of business, decentralize, keep data private, excluding a big Brother watching you.

They were important companies doing big things in terms of providing the technology needed for the next century's communications and internet build - out.

Van - Petersen believes that cryptocurrency is the next big revolution in Financial Technology and in the coming 10 years, cryptocurrencies would account for almost 10 % of Average Daily Volumes (ADV) of the existing fiat currencies.

Although Mr. Wekerle enjoyed a good joke at his expense, there was definitely «fire in his belly» when he revealed what he thinks is the «next big thing» in technology.

Chris Haw writes a piece for RELEVANT looking at why Christians ought to be hesitant about the next big thing in technology.

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

When it comes to technology we as consumers are always looking for the next big thing.

Such is the power of Information and Communications Technology, ICT, which makes it the next big sector for employment and possibly the hope of Nigerian economy as oil prices keep diminishing by the day.

Superstorm Sandy may have been the worst disaster to hit the LIPA electric grid, but the storm's aftermath brought a wave of changes that included a new system operator, badly needed technology and infrastructure upgrades, and more than $ 1.4 billion in federal funding to repair and prepare for the next big storm.

This is where the new project Real - Time 3D Gesture Analysis for Natural Interaction with Smart Devices comes in, a project that will bring the next big development in interface technology.

But clean - coal technologies have yet to be demonstrated on a large scale commercially, and by the admission of even the president's own climate - technology task force, clean coal doesn't have any prospect of making a big dent in the climate problem in the next 15 to 20 years.

Indoor positioning is the next big thing in location - tracking technology, and companies from Google to Nokia have jumped at the chance to prevent users getting lost in cavernous shopping malls, or in the concrete canyons of big cities, where GPS struggles to keep up.

France Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation, also addressed the forum, saying NSF's agenda over the next decade will come from «10 big ideas» including understanding the changing Artic, leveraging artificial intelligence, harnessing big data, developing quantum enabled technology, studying the microbiome and advancing research about gravitational waves.

«But in fact, next to the military, it's emerged as probably the biggest consumer of computer technology in the world.»

The cost benefits and climate advantages are among the reasons that five countries run national research programs on the technique; is the United States falling behind on the next big fossil fuel technology?

But this remarkably disruptive technology has only begun to flex its power, and the big question so far in this millennium is clear: What's next for the Internet?

The next big communications technology poised for widespread availability is telepresence.

Your rather wonderful feature «The next wave» (14 May, p 30) listed technologies predicted to be big in the next...

Rather than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, a middle - aged male Ph.D. toiling at a large U.S. firm — and perhaps born abroad — is more likely to be behind the next big thing, conclude researchers from George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

The next big step is making that technology affordable and user friendly.