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:
“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“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)