Sentences with phrase «rapid advance»

The rapid advance of technology is turning us into a bunch of self - centered, interpersonally retarded, button - pushing gizmo addicts who will be totally lost when the power goes off; a bunch of overweight heart attack victims / diabetes sufferers in - waiting who will crash our so - called «free» health - care system, or bankrupt the country thereby, whichever comes first.

«Clients are experiencing the rapid advance of artificial intelligence and automation in their home and business environments.

While naysayers continue to point to the intermittent supply of solar and wind, large - scale energy storage; the massively underestimated potential of energy efficiency; and the rapid advance of smart grid technology and truly low energy building infrastructure all point to an energy future that will look nothing like our past.

They note a period of low eccentricity centered around an very rapid advance of the ice sheets in Antarctica where they went from 50 % today's size to 25 % larger.

If so, we have little chance of reducing the rapid advance of global warming and the severe damages this will bring.

Following that period of rapid advance were two decades of stagnant fuel economy standards.

Recharge news The rapid advance of Britain's offshore wind industry will lead to an «explosion of innovation» in the coming decades, with floating arrays the go - to design by 2030 and multi-rotored turbines and kite - shaped high - altitude concepts taking up prominent places in the European seascape, all serviced by drones and underwater - robots, according to new predictions from UK government - industry body the Offshore Renewable...

The longstanding rite was aimed at stopping the rapid advance of nearby glaciers during a period now called the Little Ice Age.

Dzama admits a personal aversion to technology's rapid advance in our lives and embraces tradition, creating intimate works on paper inspired by the work of William Blake and Francisco de Goya, among others.

Genetic science is in a period of rapid advance.

Consequently, after its recent very rapid advance, the hedge fund industry could temporarily shrink, and many wealthy fund managers and investors could become less wealthy.

He also considered himself the herald of the rapid advance of knowledge in America, his adopted land - an intellectual high priest for a rising, if still uncertain, world power.

The rapid advance of networking between driver, vehicle and environment is becoming increasingly intensive and is facilitating new services.

«The rapid advance of technology and the very different way teachers approach teaching today, along with the almost simultaneous [aging] of the nation's education infrastructure, is creating a tremendous need to rebuild schools — yet school officials have very little knowledge about what education will look like 10 or 20 years from now.»

The rapid advance of technology hasn't just enabled greater communication and access to information for all; it's also created amazing opportunities for product developers — if they're willing to take them.

The rapid advance of technology hasn't just enabled greater communication and access to information for all; it's also created amazing...

The rapid advance of the human brain, the authors maintain, has not been driven by evolution of protein sequences.

In the last few decades, the use of DNA as a template for the arrangement of functional elements like organic dyes into precise arrays has undergone rapid advance.

But rapid advance in the electronics industry has increased the life and reliability of systems.

Still, while it is exciting to see the rapid advance in Indian science, the emergence of world - class institutions, and the increase in collaborations and external engagement, Aseem Ansari, a professor of genomics and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the founder and director of the Khorana and S.N. Bose Scholars exchange programs, reckons «it will take another decade to remodel national research infrastructure and create scientific ecosystems that are comparable to what one has access to at most R1 research institutions in the U.S.»

Libyan rebels should begin organising a «transition process», Britain and France have said, amid a rapid advance into Muammar Gaddafi's heartland.

Rebels have lost Ras Lanuf, Brega and Bin Jawad, reversing their rapid advance towards Col Gaddafi's home town of Sirte at the weekend.

Where the pooling of resources promises more rapid advance, tradition must not be allowed to stand in the way.

As the sciences have moved from one apparent success to another, and paved the way for the rapid advance of technology, the ordinary man has felt more and more confident that he understands the natural forces and processes with some degree of certainty.

That kind of critical thinking has yielded the most rapid advance in human understanding of the world in history.

Of course the rapid advance of science is throwing lots of new caveats into the mix... but the basic N and S debate remains pretty much unchanged.

There have been periods of rapid advance, periods of relative stagnation, and even periods when useful knowledge about the world has been forgotten and skills have been lost.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

This income stream is bankrolling its rapid advance into high - value downstream businesses and the value of its off - take agreement in a world that is star struck by lithium, simply can not be understated.

Just months ago, Trump and Kim were trading threats and insults as the North made rapid advances in pursuit of nuclear - armed missiles capable of hitting the United States.

The Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies will examine the technical and policy issues that arise from rapid advances in global telecommunications, the White House said in a statement.

At the same time as Greeks were making rapid advances in math, science, etc..

Baden Powell believed that it was within the power of science to make rapid advances in human knowledge in all directions and to unravel sooner or later those mysteries which at the moment seemed miraculous and mysterious.

Despite the rapid advances in plant - based meat product development and new endeavors to support novel ingredient sourcing, most of today's plant - based meats are created using the same machinery employed decades ago, and that outdated technology poses significant limitations.

With rapid advances over the past 10 years in technologies for discovering and analyzing the functions of genes, researchers are now increasingly able to get at the biological roots of complex disorders such as substance abuse and addiction.

But the rapid advances, he said, are raising the question «of whether you are creating something human - ish that you have to take seriously in terms of according it dignity and respect — and figuring out what that even means.»

On a global scale, therefore, the young, ripe field of regenerative medicine seems poised for some rapid advances that may transform treatment approaches.

They reported rapid advances of the rift in January, May and June, which increased its length to over 200 km and left the iceberg hanging on by a thread of ice just 4.5 km (2.8 miles) wide.

The concept of synthesizing life has been around for quite a while in scientific — and science fiction — literature, but only in the past 5 years have rapid advances in DNA synthesis techniques allowed the field to crystallize.

«The massive scale of genomes, together with rapid advances in gathering genome sequence information, has shifted the paradigm for many aspects of life science research,» says Castoe.

He adds that rapid advances in developmental biology are also refreshing that area of research.

Technology maturing The world is seeing rapid advances in 3 - D printers, which manufacture items from blueprints using a growing variety of ingredients — plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even more unusual ingredients like sugar, mashed potatoes, chocolate and living cells.

It is a two - way barrier: Midcareer clinicians today are unable to understand even the basic vocabulary of molecular biology and genetics, and biomedical investigators (even those with M.D. degrees) are increasingly losing track of rapid advances in clinical medicine, which is always increasing in technologic complexity.

With recent, rapid advances in next - generation sequencing technologies, large genomic data sets are becoming increasingly obtainable.

Fortunately, the LSST's high demands are paralleled by rapid advances in technologies like motion picture animation, medical imaging, and broadband Web - based video, which is one reason why Silicon Valley corporations are getting involved.

First, it is helpful to focus clinical practice sharply; not only to a subspecialty, but on an even narrower niche where one is the expert in only certain diseases within that subspecialty; by narrowing the scope, clinician - scientists find it easier stay on top of the rapid advances in both clinical and research fields.

The aim of personalizing cancer treatments by targeting genomic mutations in the cancer has seen rapid advances in recent years.

However, slow advances in reactor designs, compared to far more rapid advances in renewable energy and energy storage, mean that low - carbon energy systems may end up competing head to head with nuclear.

Recent and rapid advances in technologies that permit large - scale creation and synthesis («writing») of longer pieces of synthetic DNA, as well as the advent of extremely fast, cheap and accurate sequencing («reading») of DNA, have changed our collective thinking about the feasible size and scope of projects in many labs.

The rapid advances in genetic editing technologies over the past few years have handed the keys to the castle to the research and development community.