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Digital technology
* Digital technologies enable flawless duplication of information
  - seem to have the effect of marginalizing the human body
* allows a photographer to create a higher quality image
  - communications signals to be compressed for more efficient transmission
  - filmmakers to make actors do things never seen before on the big screen
* allows the photographic document, or index, to be penetrated, and transgressed
  - viewer to obtain close up views of specific areas in an image
* being developed for television is based on computer digital technology.
* can also make it easier to manage video images
  - be a natural force drawing people into greater world harmony
* directs the precision beam of the laser.
* enables users.
* expands the role of transmitters and valves for use in asset optimization.
* fraction of the cost of conventional video equipment.
* frees public broadcasters from the limitations imposed by a single analog signal.
* has different characteristics than that of traditional analogue technology
  - enormous potential to enrich human experience
* is key to development of advanced information infrastructures and services
  - omnipresent in the photo world
  - poised to revolutionize all forms of electronic communication
* is the latest step in the evolution of television
  - technology of the future
* makes it easier to copy works without loss of quality.
* makes it possible for TV cameras to become smaller
  - to compress signals for more efficient transmission
* pervades every aspect of modern life.
* requires systems-thinking.
* seems to be the way that everything is turning.

Educational technology
* comes in many different forms, from film strips to the Internet.
* is an investment in our children and our future
  - more than the study of machines used in education
  - perceived as a major vehicle in the movement toward education reform
  - understood to be the process of applying tools for educational purposes
* plays an important role improving learning for all students.

Electronic technology
* Electronic technologies are the foundation for communication and information systems
  - means electronic devices and systems to access and exchange information
* can also support the integration of mathematics with other subject areas.
* is concerned with waves, radiation, energy converters, etc.
* reduces paper work.

Engineering technology
* field with high-paying career opportunities.
* focuses on applied engineering.
* is oriented less toward theory and more toward practical applications.
* stresses the industrial practices and design procedures.

Environmental technology
* is any technology that's designed to benefit the environment
  - one of the fastest-growing industry sectors worldwide
  - the source of new billion dollar businesses and thousands of jobs
* rapidly expanding occupational area throughout the United States.

Gene technology
* is an additional method of control in plant cultivation
  - just one branch of modern biotechnology
* makes it possible to make use of genes from virtually any living cell.
* new form of biotechnology with much greater potential applications.
* opens up new ways of fighting infections.
* provides a new kind of freedom for humankind, and hence a new kind of history.