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Smartphones Can Relay Patients' Data To Hospital Computers In A Continuous Stream. Doctors Can Alter Treatment Regimens Remotely, Instead Of Making Patients Come In For A Visit.

Historically, Large-scale Global Trade Has Served Two Functions: 1) The Exchange Of Goods Between Willing Sellers And Buyers Described In Econ 101 Textbooks; 2) As A Tool Of State Aggrandizement, In Which The Private Parties Are Stand-ins For Governmental Interests.

Japanese Maps Tend To Come In Two Varieties: Small, Schematic, And Bewildering; And Large, Fantastically Detailed, And Bewildering.

A Smartphone Links Patients' Bodies And Doctors' Computers, Which In Turn Are Connected To The Internet, Which In Turn Is Connected To Any Smartphone Anywhere. The New Devices Could Put The Management Of An Individual's Internal Organs In The Hands Of Every Hacker, Online Scammer, And Digital Vandal On Earth.

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