21.   As the technology becomes more consumer-friendly, more tech companies are aiming their products at the growing number of home and small-office businesses.

22.   As wireless technology becomes more pervasive, digital artists are adapting it to their own devices.

23.   As network technologies become more sophisticated, the privacy implications become even more ominous.

24.   As technology becomes more sophisticated, it seems as though freedom gets defined in more basic terms.

25.   As technology becomes omnipresent, using computer screens as digital canvases is clearly catching on.

26.   As the American technology becomes a worldwide standard, foreign governments are wary that that dependence raises issues of strategic and economic security.

27.   As the technology became more affordable, ABS benefited from the trickle-down theory, becoming standard on less expensive cars or available as options at a reasonable price.

28.   At some stage even these new technologies will become commonplace.

29.   At the same time, technology has become so much a part of such businesses as banks, brokerages and airlines that they cannot function without it.

30.   A big reason for the change is that credit-card technology has become simpler.