Is man doomed to progress?

Is Man Doomed to Progress?

This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of inter-temporal consumption, agents are more satisfied with an increasing time-profile of consumption: they seem t...

Is the MDI doomed to extinction?

I s the very successful brainchild of a 9-year-old asthmatic patientt doomed to extinction? In 1956,2 the chiorofluorocarbon (CFC)-propelled metered dose inhaler (MDI) was introduced to the world as a result of a suggestion from this young child. The growth in sales of M DIs, for the purpose of administering drugs directly to the upper and lower airways, has been impressive. Currently, the MDI ...

Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?

Copy Protection Technology is Doomed

48 Computer Copy Protection Technology Is Doomed A t some fundamental level, seemingly as axiomatic as the speed of light or the conservation of energy, copying information— strings of bits—will always be easy. Historically, systems intended to restrict this fundamental property have always been defeated, and there is no reason they won't continue to be defeated. Copying has always been easy, w...

Ac 2007-2348: Are Today's Electronics Technology Programs Doomed to Extinction or Is Their Mission Changing?

Across the nation, numerous legacy electronics technology programs at the two-year college level are: being converted to Cisco and A+ based computer networking and repair programs, increasingly being asked to teach electronics fundamentals to non-electronics based technologies, and, most significantly, experiencing declining enrollments. In some cases, programs have been discontinued entirely d...