But new technology also threatens to exacerbate current inequities.

Do the new technologies threaten the traditional synthetic diamond industry?

"We all know that technology will threaten our video business someday," he said at the meeting.

More generally, the technology could threaten the dominance of traditional telecommunications networks by giving people an alternative pipe for their voice and data transmissions.

Federal law enforcement officials have also gotten into the discussion because they say the new technology threatens to undermine their efforts to tap phone calls.

We may have found that perspective just in time, just as our technology threatens the habitability of our world.

One result, he suggests, is that the "project of Babel has been making a comeback," as science and technology threaten a "human imperium over nature."

And some users say the technology threatens an everyday autonomy that is largely taken for granted.

As a result, many modern technologies, like video games, can be legitimately threatening to them.

The looming fear is that the new technology, with its yet uncharted possibilities, may threaten the future of magazines.