Word: monitors
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...keyboard on my wrist has 60 keys, and there is a trackball built into the central processor. Suspended in front of my left eye is a full-color vga screen scarcely larger than a postage stamp but so close it could just as easily be a 15-inch monitor. And did I mention the miniature video camera clipped to my shirt pocket...
...useful things I could do with the technology that fills the Cisco home. On a hot summer's day, I could phone my air-conditioning system and tell it to switch itself on half an hour before I arrive. I could have carpenters fix a kitchen shelf and monitor their progress from my office, using a webcam. And I'd love to have a webpad that allows me to access the Internet wirelessly from anywhere in the house, including the john...
...players provided by one of the home's many sponsors, or to book doctors' appointments or restaurant reservations online over a special neighborhood portal (few local businesses participate, and it's not that hard to pick up the phone). They had to remove the hallway camera meant to monitor their security remotely, after neighbors in their apartment block complained about being filmed without their consent. And they have had terrible luck trying to switch on their home air-conditioning over the Net before leaving the office. The feature was blocked by their companies' firewalls. Otherwise, it would have been...
...difficult to regulate access to technology or its use. The nature of the Internet - borderless, fast, atomized, anonymous - works against the state's traditional grip on power. According to international press monitor Reporters Sans Frontieres, 20 governments now significantly restrict Internet access. But Web users can easily use "anonymizer" sites to circumvent the blockers and surf freely and in secret. "Our technology restricts the ability of governments to censor the Internet," says Stephen Hsu, founder and CEO of an anonymizer called SafeWeb, from where users can load a tool for blocking traces onto their browser windows before they begin surfing...
...terrorism is primarily about intelligence - being able to monitor your enemy's communications and anticipate his actions in order to confound his plans and keep him on the defensive. Bin Laden's network is large and diffuse, and its components are highly autonomous, meaning that simply lopping off its head is unlikely to eliminate the threat...