Technology
- Active Stability Control, a term used by Mitsubishi to refer to their electronic stability control system
- Arcade style controller, a device used to play video games
- Arc-Suppression Coil, device used in Alternating Current power transmission systems to limit the current flowing to ground at the location of a fault almost to zero by setting up a reactive current to ground that balances the capacitive current to ground flowing from the lines. Also known as Petersen coil.
- Area Signalling Centre, a term for describing a modern railway signal box
- Application Session Controller, an element of a telecommunications network
- .asc, a computer filename extension sometimes used for text files, as an abbreviation to ASCII (also used by ASCII Armor in the programs GPG and PGP to convert binary data into ASCII)
- Automatic Stability Control, a term used by BMW Motorrad to refer to their traction control system
- TI Advanced Scientific Computer, a supercomputer design created by Texas Instruments Inc. in 1966
- Auto SoftCapping, mainframe software for controlling capping in a sub-capacity pricing environment
- The Association for Survey Computing
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)