Technology
- Digital rights management (DRM), a computer means of preventing duplication or re-distribution of computer-sensible data or computer programs, in particular, computer games and electronic media.
- Lock (computer science), a bookkeeping object used to serialize concurrent access
- Lock (database), a feature used when multiple users access a database concurrently
- Lock (weapons guidance), an indication the missile seeker system has an acquisition fix
- SIM lock, a restriction on mobile phones to work only in certain countries or with certain providers
- File locking
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)