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Technology

I think there are encouraging developments in technology that are permitting developed countries to 'do more with less', and increasing incentives to do so. The fast pace of technology presents enormous implications for sustainable business development. Satellite technology offers the opportunity, as never before, for continuous television coverage of major international events. Can we evaluate technologies as nation's core of strength or weakness? In this activity, you will check your knowledge regarding the types of technology presented in the lesson. Communications technology includes everything from the old-fashioned telegraph, through to telephones, cell phones, communication satellites, and the Internet. The primary sewer in Rome was the Cloaca Maxima; construction began on it in the sixth century BCE and it is still in use today. Hominids started using primitive stone tools millions of years ago. The earliest stone tools were little more than a fractured rock, but

Electronic Music

Starting in 1957, Max Mathews of Bell Labs developed the MUSIC programs, culminating in MUSIC V, a direct digital synthesis language. The score for Forbidden Planet, by Louis and Bebe Barron, was entirely composed using custom-built electronic circuits and tape recorders in 1956 . In the same year Columbia University purchased its first tape recorder—a professional Ampex machine—to record concerts. Vladimir Ussachevsky, who was on the music faculty of Columbia University, was placed in charge of the device, and almost immediately began experimenting with it. Electronic tuning can nowadays be done by plugging in a laptop to the vehicle diagnostic port and uploading different settings to the engine's electronic control unit. The car's electronic stability control is used to subtly brake individual wheels and counter any drifting effect. The first is the need for a standard format (a 'markup language') for encoding models in a robust, parsible, electronic form. The time