Despite all the very real concerns, mobile technology can be harnessed to improve our minds.
Big drug firms have heaps of know-how that could be harnessed to help the poor.
The plentiful creativity and entrepreneurship in the informal economy can be harnessed to cater to them.
By working together, both scientific expertise and local knowledge can be harnessed to help solve complex problems.
Many scientists believe that the body's own defences against foreign intruders can be harnessed to battle malignant melanoma.
When she wakes, she finds that she has been harnessed to a chair and the two men are holding video cameras.
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Even industry should benefit, as microbes are harnessed to produce chemicals that are currently either impossible, or too costly, to make.
Banks are also on board with Nebula, as their deluge of customer data can be harnessed to tailor services by individual preference.
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Luke Young from Farnborough took off his clothes and jumped into Hawley Lake on Saturday with the pony, which was harnessed to a trap.
The tools of the semiconductor industry are now being harnessed to mass-produce microsensors that let microprocessors see, hear and feel what's going on all around.
Noor believes emerging technologies can be leveraged to build a more inclusive world where underutilized, undiscovered, brilliance can be harnessed to create shared value for humanity.
If America's spirit of free enterprise can be harnessed to exploring space while also relieving the burden on taxpayers of NASA's extravagance, so much the better.
Professor Stephen Rand and his associate, William Fisher, have discovered that, at the proper intensity, the magnetic properties of light could potentially be harnessed to generate voltage.
The impression that the hierarchy is a closed, exclusive, all-male club must be dispelled, and the unique qualities of women harnessed to restore the reputation of the church.
The emigrants' technical and business skills, commercial relationships, and financial capital can all be harnessed to make long-distance economic contributions through foreign direct investment, venture funding, financial investments, and commercial and educational exchanges.
In electronic commerce, too, many of the trends have been gathering force for years, but are only now becoming obvious as they are harnessed to the runaway growth and global reach of the Internet.
What's good about markets in this line of thinking is that they identify the incandescent geniuses among us and catapult them to the top where their innate brilliance is harnessed to improve the lot of mankind.
"If properly harnessed to unleash their full potential, these trends hold the promise of more growth, much less poverty, and accelerating shared prosperity for African countries in the foreseeable future, " said World Bank economist, Punam Chuhan-Pole.
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Even in this high-tech era of amazing medical tools--MRI scanners that can see deep inside the body, gamma-ray beams harnessed to zap tumors, implantable defibrillators that shock the heart to keep it pumping--surgeons still wield an old-fashioned blade to take life into their hands.
For persons residing in the latter camp, the profit motive drives competition and innovation that leads to efficient production and quality enhancements in the private sector, and they believe that the same market forces can be harnessed to improve the efficiency and quality of education provision.
Of course it is more complicated than that, but if money can be spent and energy expended to argue over who is at fault for our current economic woes, that same money and that same energy can be harnessed to divine a solution as to how to put everybody back to work.
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The Profit Motive in Education provides a unique glimpse into the potentially transformative power of private sector involvement in education, providing the reader with persuasive evidence supporting the claim that the profit motive can be harnessed to meet the needs of future generations that are not currently being met by the static education models of the past.
He has harnessed himself to fire engines, Mack trucks, and a Lockheed C-130 transport plane and dragged them hundreds of yards.
Two crew members harnessed themselves to the boat and moved to the bow for a harrowing change of course in the dark.
Several breakthroughs sent shock waves through the field of renewable energy this week as Inhabitat reported on a new type of "invisibility cloak" that could supercharge solar cells and researchers at MIT harnessed viruses to improve the efficiency of dye-solar cells by a full third.
Almost all of you have harnessed new technologies to build thriving businesses and provide better services to your customers.
In 1997 IBM harnessed the effect to produce an ultrasensitive disk drive that could pack 2.7 gigabytes of data into a square inch.
After all, both companies harnessed computer science to build their footprint.
Watch for Old Economy companies that turn themselves into New Economy companies by incorporating the Internet into their daily operating activities, the way Sam Walton harnessed the computer to retailing.
"I've got enormous amounts of energy that have to be harnessed and focused, " she said.
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