How is the high technology industry latest generation in manufacturing activities? Explain with examples.
High technology, or simply high-tech, is the latest generation of manufacturing activities.
(i) It is best understood as the application of intensive research and development (R &D) efforts leading to the manufacture of products of an advanced scientific and engineering character.
(ii) Robotics on the assembly line, computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing, electronic controls of smelting and refining processes, and the constant development of new chemical and pharmaceutical products are notable examples of a high-tech industry.
(iii) Neatly spaced, low, modern, dispersed, office-plant-lab buildings rather than massive assembly structures, factories and storage areas mark the high-tech industrial landscape.
(iv) High-tech industries which are regionally concentrated, self-sustained and highly specialised are called technopolies.
(v) The Silicon Valley near San Francisco and Silicon Forest near Seattle are examples of technopolies.
