In recent years, Australia's Chunky Move has become known for creating high-tech environments.

The game features a futuristic aesthetic, with maps set in high-tech environments and in space.

The high-tech scenic environment, designed by John Napier, is something to see, if only at intermission.

"I enjoyed the high-tech environment, but it was time to do something different," Mr. Lacroute said.

Not that problems only arise in high-tech environments.

Today's meat plants operate in carefully controlled, high-tech environments that approach operating-room levels of sanitation.

Due to its high-tech environment, Eindhoven is part of several initiatives to develop, foster and increase a knowledge economy.

Adding more rank beginners to such a high-tech environment is harking back to a simpler past that no longer exists.

"It allows for some emotional, evocative qualities in a high-tech environment."

Life amid a high-tech environment has been one of Mr. Rauschenberg's main concerns.