Editing Technological escalation

'''Technological escalation''' describes the situation where two parties in competition tend to employ continual technological improvements in their attempt to defeat each other.  Technology is defined here as a creative invention, either in the form of an object or a methodology. An example is the mutual escalation seen between [[e-mail spam]]mers and the programmers of spam filters and other anti-spam techniques. Although [[Conflict escalation|escalation]] is usually meant negatively, if two companies are in an escalating competition to produce the best [[Widget (economics)|widget]], the consumer benefits because they get a choice between better and better widgets.

==See also==
* [[Arms race]]
* [[Competition]]
* [[Conflict (disambiguation)]]
* [[Industrial Revolution]]
* [[Second Industrial Revolution]]
* [[Technological escalation during World War II]]
* [[War]]

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