technological advancement
Tech moving ahead
Technological advancement is progress in the development and application of tools, techniques, and systems—improvements that increase capability, efficiency, or knowledge.
The phrase appears in discussions of innovation, economic development, and social change: Technological advancement has transformed how we communicate.
Often used abstractly to describe the general march of progress rather than specific inventions.
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- artificial intelligenceMachines mimicking human thought
- self-driving carsAutomobiles requiring no operator
- smart devicesNetwork-linked electronic products
- implementationPutting plans into effect
innovation · tech boom · automation · chip · robotics · nanotechnology · digitization · sustainability · ethics · disruption · digital divide · biotechnology · research and development · Moore's law · warp speed · space age · modernization · interoperability
- Modern JapanTokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hirohito, economic miracle
- Cold War FinlandSoviet influence
technological advancementstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
standstill · inertia · stasis · arrested development · status quo
technological advancementprimitivism
Idealization of pre-modern life
Luddism · anti-technology · technophobia · agrarianism · pastoralism