Once again, the technology has outpaced the laws, business models and public discussion needed to cope with it.
But this fact is incontrovertible: technology has outpaced our physical ability to manage the social network.
And this is where we're really, I think, increasingly in a situation where technology has outpaced the general public's ability to understand what's being done to them.
Over time, technology and market will outpace political control.
But the company maintains that technology has outpaced state laws governing medical testing.
Perhaps for the first time since the invention of the computer, technology is outpacing customers' needs, industry executives say.
As has happened so often, technology has outpaced the people who may benefit from it - or be harmed by it.
In high-end homes around the country - think of them as test labs with decor - advancing technology is outpacing people's ability to deploy it.
He'd heard similar tales before, of races whose technology had outpaced their emotional growth.
And the technology is quickly outpacing social debate over how it should be handled.