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...golden opportunity for criminals," says James Cavuoto, editor of Micro Publishing Report, based in Torrance, Calif., and author of a new study that describes the scope of the problem and offers tips for detection. According to Cavuoto, desktop forgers can doctor a wide range of documents: passports, birth certificates, immigration cards, stock certificates, credit- card receipts, purchase orders, drug prescriptions and letters of reference. Academic transcripts are particularly susceptible because college students have easy access to the necessary equipment...
...years since Infopet began offering the service, 10,000 pets have been micro-tagged in California, Oregon, Washington and Missouri. So far, 27 animals have been returned to their owners because of the device. The microchip, its insertion and a year of registration cost...
...electronization of the earth. The telephone system has amounted to the first step toward global mental telepathy. The telephone and its elaborations (computer modems, fax machines and so on) have endowed the planet with another dimension altogether: a dissolution of distance, a warping of time, a fusion of the micro (individual mind) and macro (the world). Charles de Gaulle declined to have a telephone, undoubtedly because he had already fused micro and macro -- Le monde...
...Micro-optical systems to focus lasers to the precision required for fiber- optic communication...
...payoff can be enormous. As electronics manufacturers have discovered, the laws of economics at the micro level are as different as the laws of physics. A manufacturer might spend a small fortune putting hundreds of moving parts and circuits onto a single silicon chip. But when that chip goes into large-scale production and millions of copies are made, the economies of scale take over, and development costs virtually disappear...