# Frontier Technology A better term for “deep tech” because it is vaguely falsifiable. Think about technology that are on the [[Knowledge frontier]] Figuring out whether something is frontier technology is straightforward: “does this technology do something that no other technology could do before?” Because [[Describing an effect in an inventive manner is important for separating invention and discovery]] , ‘doing something no other technology could do before’ could entail two different things corresponding to the different parts of inventive descriptions. ([[Effect A can be used for purpose B entails describing the effect in an inventive manner]] Either it uses an old effect for a new purpose or a new effect for an old purpose. <!-- #evergreen --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Frontier+Technology) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Frontier+Technology)