Meanings
- uncountableTechnology that requires big breakthroughs and has a high barrier of entry.
The nation’s tech capital has shifted into its artificial intelligence age — some call it the “hard tech” era — and the signs are everywhere.
2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 20251 more example
Emerging tech (which relates to other concepts such as frontier tech, deep tech, hard tech, sci-fi tech, exponential tech, or tough tech) is technology that still has an adoption curve into the future.
2021, Trond Arne Undheim, Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive Industry Trends, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 48Synonyms: deep tech
Synonyms & antonyms
nounTechnology that requires big breakthroughs and has a high barrier of entry.
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