The production of human simulacra to substitute for human sexual partners took several technological leaps forward in the late twentieth century.

Rather, evolution experiences jumps in complexity (such as the emergence of a self reflective universe, or noosphere).

There have been huge leaps. There will be a million fold improvement in what you can get for the same price in computing by 2030.

Can latecomers in the sphere of industrialization leapfrog and edge into a higher degree of industrialization through the use of IT?

Ongoing regional processes have made great strides in developing criteria and indicators that contribute to defining and assessing sustainable forest management.

Alas, given their histories of autocratic rule, giant leaps forward to full blown democracy are unlikely.

We strongly believe that it is time to undertake firm and decisive commitments and to allow the process to make momentous leaps to ensure that some tangible outcomes are arrived at during the summit to be held in September.

And the recent release of the US Federal Reserve Board s minutes, which indicate support for another round of quantitative easing, caused sharp jumps in the prices of gold, silver, platinum, and other metals.

Improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen engine, the Watt steam engine, developed sporadically from 1763 to 1775, was the next great step in the development of the steam engine.

Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20 astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.

Bureaucratic enterprises are typically allergic to taking big risks that is, developing and commercializing the radical innovations that push out the production possibility frontier and generate large sustained jumps in productivity and thus in economic growth.

There is much talk of great leaps forward, of modernization, innovations and nanotechnologies the sort of myths with which fading rulers console themselves as they look for magical solutions to cure the dysfunctions of their regimes.

His first published novel, Die drei Sprünge des Wang lung ( The Three Leaps of Wang Lun ), appeared in 1915 and his final novel, Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende ( Tales of a Long Night ) was published in 1956, one year before his death.

According to IAAF rules, the hop shall be made so that an athlete lands first on the same footas that from which he has taken off in the step he shall land on theother foot, from which, subsequently, the jump is performed.