Visioneers can play an increasingly important role in building the technological ecosystems of tomorrow.

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So it seems very likely that shale gas will play an increasingly important role in the years to come.

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Women are breadwinners in a growing number of families, and women's earnings play an increasingly important role in families' incomes.

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They play an increasingly important role due to the decimalization of the stock market, whereby bids and offers are in minuscule 1 cent differentials.

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Patents have started to play an increasingly important role in the smartphone industry as companies jockey to build up their portfolio of patents.

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However as more traffic goes though the public Internet it could overwhelm the carrying capacity in many geographic areas, even within the US. As a consequence a new type of network addressable storage appliance in consumer homes and SMB facilities as well as carried by people themselves will play an increasingly important role in the developing storage hierarchy.

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And since new firms play an absolutely vital role in the innovation process, that means that removing barriers to entrepreneurship becomes increasingly important to maintaining economic dynamism and prosperity.

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