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  2. Democratization of technology - Wikipedia

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    Democratization of technology refers to the process by which access to technology rapidly extends to an ever-broader audience, especially from a select group of people to the average public. New technologies and improved user experiences have empowered those outside of the technical industry to access and use technological products and services.

  3. Modernization theory - Wikipedia

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    In the 1960s, some critics argued that the link between modernization and democracy was based too much on the example of European history and neglected the Third World. [25] One historical problem with that argument has always been Germany, whose economic modernization in the 19th century came long before the democratization after 1918.

  4. List of emerging technologies - Wikipedia

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    Civic technology: Research and development, projects Smart cities, more responsive government Smart city, e-democracy, open data, intelligent environment: Digital scent technology: Diffusion Smell-O-Vision, iSmell: DNA digital data storage: Experiments Mass data storage Electronic nose: Research, limited commercialization [20] [21]

  5. Software modernization - Wikipedia

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    Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) is the initiative to standardize views of the existing systems in order to enable common modernization activities like code analysis and comprehension, and software transformation. Business-Focus Approach: The modernization strategy is tied to the business value added by the modernization.

  6. Technological change - Wikipedia

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    Technological change (TC) or technological development is the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. [1] [2] In essence, technological change covers the invention of technologies (including processes) and their commercialization or release as open source via research and development (producing emerging technologies), the continual improvement of ...

  7. Outline of technology - Wikipedia

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    Critique of technology; Democratization of technology – Spread and access to technology; Differential technological development – Strategy of technology governance; Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions – European Union directive in the field of patent law; Drexler–Smalley debate on molecular nanotechnology

  8. Four Modernizations - Wikipedia

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    Recognizing the need for technical assistance to spur this most important modernization, the Chinese Government elicited the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the fall of 1978 to scope out and provide financial resources for the implementation of an initial complement of targeted projects. The initial projects from ...

  9. Democratization - Wikipedia

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    In "Non-Modernization" (2022), Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argue that modernization theory cannot account for various paths of political development "because it posits a link between economics and politics that is not conditional on institutions and culture and that presumes a definite endpoint—for example, an 'end of history'."