He is caught up in a power struggle between the O'Keefes and an unscrupulous industrialist vying for control of an emergent medical technology.
Even the Ring Council was appalled by Dembowska's emergent technology of flesh.
For example, entrepreneurs on the internet have also created entirely new models that depend entirely on existing or emergent technology.
His work is seen by some as a beginning to emergent technologies like liquid metal ion sources and electrospraying and electrospinning.
The author Will Self describes Ballard's work as being occupied with "eros, thanatos, mass media and emergent technologies".
"This sets a precedent for guiding the use of emergent technologies in the advertising market."
Historically, they have been innovative in respect both of their business-model and in their use of emergent technologies.
Termed 'techno-economic paradigms', they suggest that the shift from one paradigm to another is the result of emergent new technologies.
One challenge that remains to be solved, however, is how to tell a compelling story using only emergent technology.
It is written in the third person and deals with Gibsonian themes of emergent technology.