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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.

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• ‟ The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

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• ‟ You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.

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• ‟ All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.

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