March 16, 2004
Slate: Plug and Play.
Current Communications won't reveal the specifics of what made its technology perform as promised, but in general terms, what's historically hindered the deployment of "broadband over power lines" is that the electrical system was designed to transmit electricity and nothing else.
Technology Review: Designed and Made in China.
Michael Schrage. More than any other country in the world, China is about the diffusion of improvements in production processes rather than improvements in end-user technology. Chinese industrialists—and postindustrialists—are on a long march to turn low-cost manufacturing capacity into faster-growth innovation capability.
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