“Controlling some technology is not an achievable goal in our cognitive and cultural situations. If you want to control weapons, as an example, you must control minds, and consciousness, not objects. To change our world, we must change our minds, not which objects are available. There is no other workable solution. Our minds — our goals and intentions — direct our creation and use of objects as cultures. If we cannot control our minds, our laws will merely punish us further for a failure we have decided to ignore.” — an anonymous informant