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high tech

(high TECHnology) High tech refers to the latest advancements in computers and electronics as well as to the social and political environment and consequences created by such machines. Contrast with high touch and low tech. See Big Tech and hard tech.


Yet Still Superstitious
Even though we live in such a high-tech world, humanity is still very superstitious. Where is the 13th floor in this building?




Yet Still Superstitious
Even though we live in such a high-tech world, humanity is still very superstitious. Where is the 13th floor in this building?
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A more aggressive choice would be to invest in high-technology stocks through a NASDAQ index fund.
High-technology stocks got a boost after the tech-laden Nasdaq composite index advanced 30.95 points, or 1.79%, to close at 1,756.19 in New York on Friday.
Only the crash of high-technology stocks in 2000, and later the slowing of the economy and the uptick in the unemployment rate, tempered the rhetoric.
This reality doesn't mean that the market never deviates from fundamental values: a strong case can be made that the performance of Internet and high-technology stocks during the second half of the 1990s added up to a "bubble." But such deviations tend to be short-lived.
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