Mark Slouka, War of the Worlds: Cyber-space and the high-tech assault on                 reality (London: Abacus, 1995), 174 pp. ISBN 0349 107858 (pbk) and Bill Gates (with                 Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson), The Road Ahead (London: Viking, 1995), 286 pp.                 ISBN 0-670-85913-3

This chapter traces a rhetorical history of the male computer geeks, engineers, and other high-tech types who came to epitomize autism in the late 1990s. It employs rhetorical analysis of key texts, including Simon Baron-Cohen's book The Essential Difference, a Wired magazine article titled “Silicon Valley Syndrome,” and a series of articles diagnosing Silicon Valley titans such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates as autistic by drawing on topoi of technology, geekdom, and cognitive capitalism, or the “knowledge economy.” As presented, gendered characters help make a cultural phenomenon seem livelier and more immediate to readers, often in ways that stereotype people—in this case, autistic people—in order to make a larger rhetorical point.

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The World Expo in 2010 by Chinese Building Development Prospects

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.201-202.924 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 201-202 ◽

pp. 924-927

Author(s):

Zi Jia Wang

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Development ◽

High Tech ◽

International Affairs ◽

The Road ◽

Chinese Architecture ◽

Social And Economic Development ◽

The World ◽

World Expo ◽

Architectural Development

2010 Shanghai World Expo will be "Better City, to make life better" as the theme, which includes five sub-themes: urban and economic development of the relationship between、cities and sustainable development of relations, urban and rural interaction between, urban and high-tech development of relations, urban and multicultural development. Its meaning is to require more livable environment, better quality of life, this is the dream of mankind in the new century. This article focuses on people-centered concept, a true understanding of human hope and desire of the prospects for urban development. Learn from the World Expo, looking back at the Chinese architectural development, we will find that China is its unprecedented pace of development and the influence and role in the world political economy and international affairs, deeply attracted worldwide attention. Only adapt to the needs of the Chinese social and economic development, according to China's development resources and environmental conditions in order to build green, ecological architecture, Chinese architecture may go down the road of sustainable development. Thus clear, Expo will not only bring a new concept of the Chinese people for building development, and also sublimation of the peace and development, mutual promotion and common progress, this is based on the eternal theme of the whole world.

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We’re on the road to nowhere: An exhibition of molecules to transport us

Molecules at an Exhibition ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198502661.003.0011 ◽

1998 ◽

Author(s):

John Emsley

Keyword(s):

Human Population ◽

Clean Energy ◽

High Energy ◽

High Tech ◽

World Population ◽

The Sun ◽

Solar Panels ◽

Sea Levels ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road

The rays of the Sun, and the motions of the Moon and Earth, provide energy in abundance. Light from the Sun is absorbed by plants on land and algae in the sea and is used to convert carbon dioxide into high energy carbohydrates, which in turn become oils. Together these provide most of the food energy for animals like ourselves. We can also harvest plants and trees and burn them to release this energy as heat. The sunlight which falls on barren terrain, or on the roofs of buildings, we can also gather by using solar panels to heat water or to make electricity. The sunlight which falls on the oceans leads to evaporation of water which is precipitated on land, and this too we can use to generate hydroelectricity. The Earth itself is a vast reservoir of heat below the crust, but this is not so easily tapped—although in parts of the world, such as New Zealand, hydrothermal heat is an important source of power. We can extract energy from the effects of the Earth’s daily rotation, partly through the weather systems this produces, by using windmills, and possibly through the rise and fall of sea levels, by using tidal barriers and wave power. These sources of clean energy should be able to provide all the fuel and electricity for a sustainable human population of several billion, provided we did most of our travelling on foot or by bicycle. How much these natural renewable sources could really provide is debatable, but we have the means to utilize them so they could supply enough food and energy for a world population of two or three billion, and at a level which allows for most of the high-tech living that we now take for granted. It might even be possible for most families to run a car, provided they were content to travel only a couple of thousand miles a year in it. The trouble is that there are already six billion of us, and forecasts are that this will reach ten billion by the middle of the next century. Most of these people will no doubt aspire to owning a car.

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Ride Comfort Analysis of Sedan Car using Quarter Car Suspension System Modelling and Simulation

International Journal of Vehicle Structures and Systems ◽

10.4273/ijvss.9.5.13 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

Author(s):

C. Qiu

Keyword(s):

Simulation Model ◽

Automobile Industry ◽

Degrees Of Freedom ◽

Ride Comfort ◽

High Tech ◽

System Modelling ◽

Front Suspension ◽

Vehicle Simulation ◽

The Road ◽

Quarter Car

With the application of high-tech technology in automobile industry, more attention is given to the ride performance which will directly affect the comfort and safety of the passenger/driver. This paper is focused on the study of vehicle ride performance using vehicle simulation model. Two degrees of freedom quarter car model of vehicle with Macpherson front suspension from Santana 2000Gsi saloon car is established. The parameters of the simulation model include the suspension stiffness, damping coefficient of shock absorber and the road excitation. The road surface excitation is gained by using white noise integral method. By inputting the calculated basic parameters into suspension simulation model, the ride performance can be evaluated. The parameters can be adjusted such that the vibration characteristics to be more intuitive, which further laid the basis for accurate vibration control.

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Education Directorate: ABC's are on the road for a high-tech revamping

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e381752004-047 ◽

1993 ◽

Author(s):

Tori DeAngelis ◽

Keyword(s):

High Tech ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road

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Offline: The day Bill Gates crossed the road

The Lancet ◽

10.1016/s0140-6736(14)61004-7 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 383 (9935) ◽

pp. 2110 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Richard Horton

Keyword(s):

The Road ◽

Bill Gates

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Application of Traditional Local Materials and Suitable Technology in the Modern Low-Carbon Buildings: A Case Study of Rammed Earth Building

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.168-170.69 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 168-170 ◽

pp. 69-73

Author(s):

Dong Xu Zhang ◽

Da Ping Liu ◽

Meng Xiao ◽

He Li

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Building Materials ◽

High Tech ◽

Rammed Earth ◽

Favorable Result ◽

Low Carbon ◽

General Applicability ◽

The Road ◽

The Future ◽

Local Materials

It has been the consensus shared by every member of the society that we should protect the earth, benefit the future generations and take the road of sustainable development which is natural-based and coordinated with environment carrying capacity. Currently, no one can doubt the importance of low carbon living and low carbon architecture. Numerous new materials and high technologies have been used in the country all over the world in the course of low carbon architecture’s development, some of which has had a favorable result, such as London zero carbon emissions pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. But China still is a developing country, for various reasons, it is premature to widely promote the expensive high-tech low-carbon buildings, and especially in the vast rural areas, the traditional local materials and suitable technology still could have general applicability. This paper takes the rammed earth building as example, by introducing the history of rammed earth building, the application status and some of the latest instances, and summarizes several advantages of rammed earth building: the first is that easy manufacturing processing could reduce the energy consumption; the second is that local materials could lower transportation costs; the third is that the clay materials with good thermal performance such as heat insulation and moisture property could ensure comfortable indoor environment, the last is that long service life and easy reclamation could recycle building materials. Then the author looks forward to the future development trends of rammed earth buildings, explores the new construction practices of rammed earth buildings. Finally this paper concludes that traditional local materials and suitable technology would play an important role in the modern low-carbon architecture.

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Using Social Learning Theory to Reduce Small Business Breakdown along the Internet Superhighway: An Exploratory Model

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication ◽

10.2190/xb2p-8rru-x601-8qyj ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 237-247

Author(s):

Randolph T. Barker ◽

Philip R. Sturm ◽

Michael Camarata

Keyword(s):

Social Learning ◽

Small Business ◽

Learning Theory ◽

Social Learning Theory ◽

Small Businesses ◽

High Tech ◽

Information Superhighway ◽

Far Right ◽

The Road ◽

Proper Training

As the speed of travel on the “Information Superhighway” accelerates, many small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) do not effectively keep pace. SME computer resistors include 1) the slow-plodding neophyte computer users in the far right hand lane, 2) the firms curious about computerization but who are yet to make a purchase decision, idling in neutral on the access ramps, and 3) the business that purchases improper equipment and/or software and ventures onto the “road” without proper training and support, being run over by the speeding industry. In the information high-tech world of the 1990s it seems amazing that an estimated quarter of all small businesses still do not have their first personal computer. This article calls upon the innovators of the communications field to look in the rear view mirror to see the businesses left behind in the information expansion race. A model utilizing social learning theory defines a framework for road service [1], getting the small business “resister” up to the information superhighway speed limit.

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