31.   But digital technology allows us to do even more.

32.   But modern technology has allowed crush videomakers to sell their products on the Internet.

33.   But new optical technologies have allowed MCI to increase its carrying capacity an unprecedented eight times over the past four years.

34.   But technology is allowing shortcuts.

35.   But the technology allows splitting the line between data and telephone uses, perhaps eliminating the need for additional lines.

36.   By World War I, new technology allowed the introduction of open-pit mining, and the face of Bisbee began changing forever.

37.   Cameras sprouted like dandelions around stadiums, and faster instant-replay technology allowed viewers far more intimate portraits of athletes and games.

38.   Called PICS for short, the technology allows browser software to recognize a ratings code inserted in a Web home page.

39.   Carpenter said the technology would allow people to use their telephones in the standard fashion even as the same wires carry Internet data between machines.

40.   Christopher Panos, a Boston attorney, says e-mail and other communications technologies have allowed him to keep in regular contact with coworkers, family, and friends.