The Japanese Are Great At Inventing Complex

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

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

A Whole Bunch Of Big Technological Shocks Occurred When Asian Innovations - Paper, Gunpowder, The Stirrup, The Moldboard Plow And So On - Came To Europe Via The Silk Road.

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.

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.