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...scurried to arrange multiparty talks in Bonn aimed at securing enough political stability to begin the country's rehabilitation. Pakistan severed its last diplomatic ties with the Taliban , while the U.S. intensified the hunt for Osama bin Laden, placing thousands of troops on standby. The U.S. also deployed new high-tech sensors in surveillance planes and in scouting vehicles on the ground. DENMARK Shift to the Right Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen conceded defeat to a conservative coalition in a snap election from which he'd hoped to benefit but which was instead dominated by anti-immigrant sentiment. The Liberal...
Across Europe, uniformed security guards have appeared at the doors of once wide-open office blocks. Companies shopping for their first metal detectors have found themselves at the end of long waiting lists. And high-tech gizmos that three months ago might have appealed only to the truly paranoid now look like sensible precautions. Here are a few of the technologies poised to benefit from the new bull market in fear...
...will we really be that much safer in this scared new world of high-tech security? There's reason to be pessimistic. Take biometrics: it's great at identifying people, but it can't identify terrorists. Only a handful of the 19 hijackers in the U.S. attacks were on terrorist wanted lists; biometrics would not have stopped those not on the lists from boarding the planes. Better trained - and better paid - airport security staff might have. The danger is that we will rely too heavily on technology, relaxing in a false sense of security while ignoring less flashy, but often...
...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger - a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...
...cautionary tale of Preston Tucker, who in the 1940s designed a "car of the future" packed with such safety innovations as a padded dashboard, disk brakes and safety glass--a car so far ahead of its time that only 51 were ever produced. In fact, the annals of high-tech history contain remarkably few cases in which the most innovative technology has emerged triumphant in the marketplace...