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    Technology shocks are sudden changes in technology that significantly affect economic, social, political or other outcomes. In economics, the term technology...
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  • price level. A positive supply shock could be an advance in technology (a technology shock) which makes production more efficient, thus increasing output...
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  • employment, at the time of the shock and at subsequent times, is measured by an impulse response function. A technology shock is the kind resulting from a...
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  • G-Shock is a line of watches manufactured by the Japanese electronics company Casio, designed to resist mechanical stress, shock and vibration. G-Shock...
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    Janet Yellen (category Massachusetts Institute of Technology fellows)
    United States. A research study led to a theory called "reproductive technology shock", arguing that the increased availability of both abortion and contraception...
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  • demand shock led to global overheating and rising inflationary pressures. Shock (economics) Supply shock Demand-pull inflation Technology shock "Demand...
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    George Akerlof (category Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni)
    described a phenomenon that he labeled "reproductive technology shock." He contended that the new technologies that had helped to spawn the late twentieth century...
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    Depression large negative shocks caused the 1929–33 downturn – including monetary shocks, productivity shocks, and banking shocks – but those developments...
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  • what any particular technology actually is. The book's title alludes to the 1980 television series The Shock of the New. The Shock of the Old reviewed...
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  • System Shock is a science fiction video game series originally created by Looking Glass Technologies. It consists of System Shock, System Shock 2, and...
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    A shock absorber or damper is a mechanical or hydraulic device designed to absorb and damp shock impulses. It does this by converting the kinetic energy...
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  • System Shock 2 is a 1999 action role-playing survival horror video game designed by Ken Levine and co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass...
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    Culture shock is an experience a person may have when one moves to a cultural environment which is different from one's own; it is also the personal disorientation...
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    its ''Cantilever'' technology, which uses a cushion to provide shock absorption and stability. The company contended the technology has been the basis...
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    A shock detector, shock indicator, or impact monitor is a device which indicates whether a physical shock or impact has occurred. These usually have a...
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  • System Shock is a 1994 first-person action-adventure video game developed by LookingGlass Technologies and published by Origin Systems. It was directed...
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  • dominance and shock and awe, they write, may become a "revolutionary change" as the United States military is reduced in size and information technology is increasingly...
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  • line of G-Shock watches produced by Japanese electronics company Casio designed for usage in harsh environments. Many showcase new technology that Casio...
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  • BioShock is a retrofuturistic video game series created by Ken Levine, published by 2K and developed by several studios, including Irrational Games and...
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  • The DualShock (originally Dual Shock, trademarked as DUALSHOCK or DUAL SHOCK, with the PlayStation 5 version as DualSense) is a line of gamepads developed...
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  • managementPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Technology shock – sudden changes in technology that significantly affect economic, social, political...
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    far beyond even the region of Pluto until it encounters the "termination shock", where its motion slows abruptly due to the outside pressure of the interstellar...
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    Udarnik (redirect from Shock Worker)
    [ʊˈdarnʲɪk]), also known in English as a shock worker or strike worker (collectively known as shock brigades or a shock labor team) is a high productivity worker...
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  • Future Shock is a 1970 book by American futurist Alvin Toffler, written together with his wife Adelaide Farrell, in which the authors define the term...
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    An electrical injury (electric injury) or electrical shock (electric shock) is damage sustained to the skin or internal organs on direct contact with...
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  • Magnetorheological damper (category Shock absorbers)
    A magnetorheological damper or magnetorheological shock absorber is a damper filled with magnetorheological fluid, which is controlled by a magnetic field...
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  • In economics, shock therapy is a group of policies intended to be implemented simultaneously in order to liberalize an economy, including liberalization...
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    antidepressants, there has been a resurgence of ECT with new modern technologies and techniques. Modern shock voltage is given for a shorter duration of 0.5 milliseconds...
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  • A systemic shock is a shock to any system that perturbs a system enough to drive it out of equilibrium. Systemic shocks occur in a wide range of fields...
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  • representation of transitory and permanent technology shocks. The results show that including permanent technology shocks is able to produce the behavior observed...
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