Meaning of hard tech | Babel Free

Definitions

Technology that requires big breakthroughs and has a high barrier of entry.

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Examples

“Emerging tech (which relates to other concepts such as frontier tech, deep tech, hard tech, sci-fi tech, exponential tech, or tough tech) is technology that still has an adoption curve into the future.”

“The nation’s tech capital has shifted into its artificial intelligence age — some call it the “hard tech” era — and the signs are everywhere.”

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