Science and Technology
- .BAC, a filetype used by the RSTS/E timesharing system for compiled BASIC-PLUS files
- BACEngine, a data search tool
- Bacterial Artificial Chromosome, a DNA construct used for transforming and cloning in bacteria
- Basic Access Control, a protocol used to transmit data contained in a passport equipped with RFID chip
- Blood alcohol content (blood alcohol concentration)
- Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, a type of lung cancer often diagnosed in non-smokers
- HP Business Availability Center, an end-user experience monitoring tool
- Biological Activated Carbon, a process in waste water treatment.
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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.... It is the good Adam contemplating his own virtue.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)