The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that someday soon we may have a new class of very smart very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.
There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.
I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.
In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges transportation factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
The reason is that till date in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it so it's part of everyday life.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I count myself well educated for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half was a born teacher in advance of her own times.