Zittrain's outlook is cynical but wise; he goes into great detail about the ways in which "tethered technology" (iPhones, Kindles, G.P.S. devices, Facebook accounts) can easily be controlled and modified by the few for the many, with minor repercussions.
Finally, the dynamic behavior of a tethered probe perturbed from the equilibrium states is simulated to verify the proposed tether assisted technology for the observation of the asteroid.
All of this, of course, is vastly more complicated when people have greater expectations of what a marriage should be, and when the demands of work and the tether of technology are steadily eroding what used to be "family time".
That constant tether to technology doesn't just connect you to your friends on Facebook -- it keeps you subconsciously on call to your boss, too.
Most of the updates were tethered to technology.
Justine Harman, Elle.com features editor, and Tara Kennedy-Kline, author of Stop Raising Einstein, joined HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-tohrani to discuss how our tethers to technology are making us socially awkward -- and sometimes even creepy.
We attempt to verify two basic technologies required for a space elevator using microsatellites; the tether (cable) deployment technology and the climber operation along the tether in space.
