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The Future of Transportation

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As a feature differentiator, manufacturers will be eager to sell a profitable new option. Photovoltaic cost per watt continues to drop (from $12 per watt in 1998 to $5 per watt in 2013, 14% annually over the long term) at the same time that we’re seeing new innovations in grid-scale energy storage.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

might have been a lot less differentiated. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. companies versus the Web 1.0

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).