Eventually, technical progress may deliver the next expansion.

We tend to believe that scientific and technical progress can usually be harnessed for the benefit of humankind.

Technical progress seems to be playing a part in this, too, as computers replace people doing clerical and other routine tasks.

The same technical progress that has helped improve quality also contains its greatest threat-piracy.

Some of that reflected developments in commodity prices, but much of it reflected technical progress and lower prices for industrial products.