Definition of technological
1 : of, relating to, or characterized by technology
2 : resulting from improvements in technical processes that increase productivity of machines and eliminates manual operations or operations done by older machines
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Technological innovations, such as mobile money, will probably do much more to reach them.
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The National Science Foundation offers a resource guide for communication and requires scientists seeking funds to explain how the results would be shared broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding.
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Companies are launching efforts to root out phony news, engaging in a kind of technological arms race.
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Since the beginning of the industrial age, almost every major technological innovation has led to dire predictions that humans were being permanently replaced by machines.
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Since the beginning of the industrial age, almost every major technological innovation has led to dire predictions that humans were being permanently replaced by machines.
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In the midst of the Great Depression, the economist John Maynard Keynes forecast that technological progress might allow a 15-hour workweek, and abundant leisure, by 2030.
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Since the beginning of the industrial age, almost every major technological innovation has led to dire predictions that humans were being permanently replaced by machines.
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The Harvard professor and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. says that the problem stems from the American education system having failed to adapt to the 21st century’s highly globalized, highly technological economy.
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: of or relating to technology
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