... our view of the situation and our choices
• Winston Churchill called the rise of electronic warfare in World War II the “Wizard War.”
50 years later war has moved to the Internet. As governments and companies become ever more dependent on computers and online networks, the new anti-heroes are “cyberterrorists.”
Then came “hacktivists” and “cybervandals”, computer hackers with political and social agendas.
Stanton McCandlish of the Electronic Frontier Foundation describes a future where computer networks will increasingly be “the main battleground for armies and terrorists.
…. Computers are the roads and bridges of the information age.”
Notice his novel comparison with familiar images. Every time you see a road or a bridge you may recall his prophecy.
McCandlish created memory anchors and lodged them in your mind.
• Carnell Smith found out shortly after he broke up with his girlfriend that she was pregnant and spent the next 11 years believing he was the father of her child. Then, in 2000, after his visitation time had been cut back and around the same time a court order nearly doubled his monthly child-support payments, he took a DNA test that showed he was not the biological parent.
Three years and about $100,000 in child support and legal fees later, Smith managed to disentangle himself from responsibilities for the girld and walked out of court, “a broke but free man.”
He successfully lobbied for a “paternity-fraud” law (ah, the power of labeling) in his state and now runs a DNA-testing company.
His company’s slogan: “If the genes don’t fit, you must acquit!”
