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The technological revolution

Children and Young People Now, 2017
Children's services commissioners must embrace emerging technology as funding and needs change, says Richard Selwyn
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Disasters and the Information Technology Revolution

Disasters, 1997
This paper, the second in a series of state‐of‐the art reviews, examines the evolution and possible medium‐term future of information technology (IT) in disaster management. Until the end of the 1970s, civilian application of IT to disaster management was confined to a few specialised departments of universities, large companies and government. Between
R, Stephenson, P S, Anderson
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Technology as Revolution

2005
Abstract This book is about two interrelated phenomena: long-term economic growth and the pervasive technologies that occasionally transform a society’s entire set of economic, social, and political structures and that have come to be called ‘general purpose technologies’ (GPTs).
Richard G Lipsey, Kenneth I Carlaw, Clifford T Bekar   +2 more
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The Third Revolution in Sequencing Technology

Trends in Genetics, 2018
Forty years ago the advent of Sanger sequencing was revolutionary as it allowed complete genome sequences to be deciphered for the first time. A second revolution came when next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies appeared, which made genome sequencing much cheaper and faster.
Dijk, Erwin L., Jaszczyszyn, Yan, Naquin, Delphine, Thermes, Claude   +3 more
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Chip Technologies as the Engine for IT Revolution

2015 IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2015
Chip technologies have been one of the most powerful engines for the computer and IT revolution, and this trend will continue toward the future. Chip innovations will be reviewed through three different pattenrs: disruptive innovation, exponential innovation or Moore's Law, and cyclical innovation or Makimoto's Wave.
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The impending revolution in computer technology

Papers and discussions presented at the December 3-5, 1958, eastern joint computer conference: Modern computers: objectives, designs, applications on XX - AIEE-ACM-IRE '58 (Eastern), 1958
Webster gives one definition of a revolution as follows: "A total or radical change." The following discussions are concerned with a radical change in the technology which provides components for use in digital data processing systems. At the onset of a revolution it is not clear what the outcome may be.
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The Technology Revolution

2011
There is a truly disruptive but exhilarating revolution taking place. Technology has moved into a new era. Digital is changing the way we communicate, the way we buy things, the way businesses interact, the way we talk. Our expectations of what we can do and how we can do it have been transformed.
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DSP: a technology, a product, a revolution

Proceedings of the 30th European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2004
This paper gives a broad overview of the evolution of DSP chips. It started with the desire of humans to communicate with computers. It has revolutionized the way we work, live, learn and play. Technology was the first driver. It was replaced by the products we call DSPs as the drivers.
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Technology of the Industrial Revolution

Nature, 1959
A History of Technology Edited by Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams. Assisted by Y. Peel, J. R. Petty and M. Reeve. Vol. 4: The Industrial Revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850. Pp. xxxiii + 728 + 48 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1958.) 168s. net.
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Repudiating the Fourth Industrial Revolution Discourse: A New Episteme of Technological Progress

World Futures, 2021
Alexander Trauth-Goik
exaly