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:
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)