Sentences with phrase «technology in a sensible way»

If we are to balance the costs and benefits of modern information technology in a sensible way, a regulatory framework is inescapable.

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I think that the way medical science and technology have developed in the past few decades does mean that an upper limit of 20 or 22 weeks would be sensible.

This is sensible because, as the experience of that American committee demonstrates, technology is relatively easy to predict in the short term because most products take at least a decade to make their way from the research labs to the shops.

Within economics modelling, attempts to model the feedback mechanisms that occur in the real economy are also really difficult — we know, for example, that investment in new technologies will act as an incentive for the existing technologies it hopes to substitute to become more efficient (the sailing ship effect — i.e. in the 50 years after the introduction of the steam ship, sailing ships made more efficiency improvements than they had in the previous 3 centuries) but how to quantify something even as simple as this is not easy BUT we have learnt a few ways to give sensible (order of magnitude) figures with time lags, the learning by doing effect and phased - in substitution effects based on massive amounts of data.