Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: kurt@tc.FLUKE.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: The Impact of Inventions Message-ID: <2195@hplabsc.HP.COM> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 14:52:08 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.2195 Posted: Wed Jul 8 14:52:08 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 17:06:13 EDT References: <2041@hplabsc.HP.COM> Sender: taylor@hplabsc.HP.COM Distribution: world Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 8 Approved: taylor@hplabs 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.