technological progress
81Productive forces — Productive forces, productive powers or forces of production [in German, Produktivkräfte ] is a central concept in Marxism and historical materialism. In Karl Marx and Frederick Engels s own critique of political economy, it refers to the… …
82State Science and Technology Prizes — The State Science and Technology Prizes (國家科學技術獎) is the highest honor in People s Republic of China in science and technology, in order to recognize citizens and organizations who have made remarkable contributions to scientific and… …
83Frederic M. Scherer — Frederic Michael Scherer (b. 1932, Ottawa, IL, USA) is an American economist. Since 2006 he is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management in the Aetna Chair, in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. From… …
84Life in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution — Industrial revolution is defined as the vast social and economic changes that resulted from the development of steam powered machinery and mass production methods, beginning in the late eighteenth century in Great Britain and extending through… …
85transportation — /trans peuhr tay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of transporting. 2. the state of being transported. 3. the means of transport or conveyance. 4. the business of conveying people, goods, etc. 5. price of travel or transport by public conveyance; fare. 6.… …
86Tragic Optimism for a Millennial Dawning — ▪ 1999 Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Geology and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Harvard University since 1973, has gained worldwide renown as a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and, not least,… …
87Information society — For other uses, see Information society (disambiguation). The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage internationally through using IT in a creative and productive way. An information society is a society in which the… …
88Jevons paradox — In economics, the Jevons Paradox (sometimes called the Jevons effect) is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of… …
89Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan, adj., n. /sree lahng keuh, lang keuh, shree / an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 18,762,075; 25,332 sq. mi. (65,610 sq. km). Cap.: Colombo. Formerly, Ceylon. Arabic, Serendip.… …
90Stanisław Lem — Infobox Writer name = Stanisław Lem imagesize = 240px caption = Stanisław Lem in 1966 pseudonym = birthdate = 12 September 1921 birthplace = Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine) deathdate = 27 March 2006 (aged 84) deathplace = Kraków, Poland occupation =… …
