But in Miss Law's elegiac comedy, the city also symbolizes a modern world in which technology and popular culture have all but erased cultural traditions that are centuries old.

But digital technology is quickly erasing the differences between carriers.

But industry executives said that digital technology will soon erase that difference.

Remember, technology has erased the waiting process in many industries, but hold onto the personal issues, even if it means e-mailing your customers following each request.

In another spot, the same voice asks if "you really think that all the technology in the world can erase economic truths that have held for hundreds of years?"

Even with current technology completely "erasing" lip lines may not be feasible.

Every time you try to rebuild a wall, some new technology comes along and erases it.

As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body.

The company's technology will also erase copies made by other manufacturers' copier machines and by laser printers and plain-paper facsimile machines.

There are distinctions that the most advanced programming and technology apparently cannot yet erase.