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...ct on pre-existing economic and social structures. The archetypal examples of GPTs are the [[steam engine]], [[electricity]], and [[information technolog ...al purpose technology, spin-out, and innovation: technological development of laser diodes in the United States and Japan |date=2019 |publisher=Springer ...

...ociety}}</ref> In the 1980s and 1990s, it became known for its evaluations of state [[Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act|welfare-to-work]] ...=2023-11-03 |website=MDRC |language=en}}</ref> and made this position part of the executive team.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our People |url=https://www.mdrc. ...

{{Short description|Class of philosophies}} {{About|a critique of anthropocentrism|the futurist ideology and movement|Transhumanism}} ...

...goods and the money and so on. Thus, a word activates, or evokes, a frame of semantic knowledge relating to the specific concept to which it refers (or ...r-first1=Brian |editor-last2=O'Grady |editor-first2=William|title=Handbook of Language Emergence |publisher=Wiley |date=2015 |pages=1–31 |chapter= Introd ...

...jamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky]]'', an artistic rendition of Franklin's kite experiment painted by [[Benjamin West]], c. 1816]] ...ite experiment demonstrated that lightning and electricity were the result of the same phenomenon. ...

[[File:JPL Visions of the Future, Mars.jpg|thumb|A [[NASA]] poster about a fictional Mars tour. T ...], the avoidance or prevention of suffering and even the [[immortality|end of death]]. ...

{{short description|Concept of geologic time}} ...his book ''[[Annals of the Former World|Basin and Range]]'' (1981), parts of which originally appeared in the ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' magazine ...

...description|An individual whose knowledge spans over a substantial number of subjects}} ...philosopher. He further attained a legacy as one of the [[Founding Fathers of the United States]].]] ...

{{Short description|Practice of obscuring information}} ...dge]]; and (2) deliberate obscurity — a [[wikt:recondite|recondite]] style of writing characterized by deliberate vagueness.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https:// ...

| name = ''Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry'' | image = Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life A Philosophical Inquiry.jpg ...

...e Dictionary]]'': "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts." ...ommon-sense common sense]." ''[[Cambridge Dictionary]]'': "the basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live in a reas ...

|invented={{start date and age|1809||}} by [[Humphry Davy]] ([[arc lamp]]) ...date and age|1879||}} by [[Joseph Swan]] and [[Thomas Edison]] (first demo of incandescent bulb) ...

{{Short description|Application of technology for use in warfare}} {{For|theories, strategies, concepts and doctrines of warfare|Military science}} ...

{{About|the theological concept|other uses of the term|Limbo (disambiguation)}} ...um.org/artwork/79340/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection |language=en}}</ref>]]{{Roman Catholic Church}} ...

{{Short description|Proposed description of communication phenomena}} ...an argument for these three elements. Communication theory provides a way of talking about and analyzing key events, processes, and commitments that tog ...

{{Short description|Hostility to and mistrust of education, philosophy, art, literature, and science}} ...bodies, with the size of the head representing mental ability and the size of the body representing physical ability. ([[Thomas Nast]])]] ...

...to be greater than most laypeople can realize; as scientists in philosophy of science, and further science and technology often like to say about this "I ...with technological equipment, but there is also a sub-group for the group of people interacting with technology. The theories described are, according t ...

{{For|the critique of humanism and related term|Posthumanism}} ...al |last1=Hopkins |first1=P. D. |title=Transhumanism |journal=Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Second Edition) |date=2012 |pages=414–422 |doi=10.1016/B978 ...

{{short description|Analysis of facts to form a judgment}} ...ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201204/it-s-fine-line-between-narcissism-and-egocentrism|title=It's a Fine ...

{{short description|Capacity for consciously making sense of things}} {{about|the human faculty of reason and rationality}} ...