: resulting from improvements in technical processes that increase productivity of machines and eliminate manual operations or operations done by older machines
Recent Examples on the WebBut even an aging China with a slow-growing economy will be a powerful commercial, technological and military competitor. Doyle Mcmanus, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022 The slaughter of 20 million people grotesquely buttressed his insistence that conscious rationality co-exists with aggressive unreason and his skepticism toward naïve narratives of inevitable social and technological progress. Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022 The island is still generating large amounts of content on the technological cutting edge. Vivienne Chow, Variety, 30 Aug. 2022 The report does leave room for interpretation, but in a way, the threats represented by bogeymen from space are less scary than simply Russia and China flexing their technological and strategic muscle. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2022 President Biden signed into law a $280 billion bill aimed at building up America’s manufacturing and technological edge to counter China.New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022 Any hint during the Q2 call that Tesla could go ex-growth or lose its technological edge and cracks could rapidly appear in its equity story. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 19 July 2022 Every nation, every business tries to get the trade secrets and technological edge of its competitors. Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 5 July 2022 In his Saturday night address, Zelensky called on partners in the West to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons to give Kyiv a technological edge over Moscow. Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 May 2022 See More