The Embrace Of A New Technology By

Major Power And Telephone Grids Have Long Been Controlled By Computer Networks, But Now Similar Systems Are Embedded In Such Mundane Objects As Electric Meters, Alarm Clocks, Home Refrigerators And Thermostats, Video Cameras, Bathroom Scales, And Christmas-tree Lights - All Of Which Are, Or Soon Will Be, Accessible Remotely.

The Human Propensity Is To Believe That Flukes Of Good Fortune Will Never Come To An End.

Compared With U.s. Cities, Japanese Cities Bend Over Backward To Help Foreigners. The Countryside Is Another Matter.

Scientists Have Established Huge Numbers Of Links Between Particular Diseases And Snippets Of Dna, But In The Great Majority Of Cases, This Has Not Yet Been Translated Into Treatments That Can Help Cure Patients. These Treatments Will Come - Tomorrow, Or The Day After.

The Embrace Of A New Technology By Ordinary People Leads Inevitably To Its Embrace By People Of Malign Intent.