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People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters. – Daniel Yergin

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The Russians are turning east to the Chinese – to the Europeans surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. – Daniel Yergin

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So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. – Daniel Yergin

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Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. – C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971

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But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before. – Bill Griffith

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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. – Jim Costa

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Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts weve made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. – Charles Vest

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