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Bill Ingogly questions "What is it about technology that makes it impossible
to control?"

Technology is mostly ideas.  Technology is a way to do something more easily
than before or something that was previously not possible.  To 'control'
technology, you must control thought and countervene the tendency of people
to do things more easily or that were previously impossible.  This is an
intractible task, even for a poet.