The Human Propensity Is To Believe That

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.

A Whole Bunch Of Big Technological Shocks Occurred When Asian Innovations - Paper, Gunpowder, The Stirrup, The Moldboard Plow And So On - Came To Europe Via The Silk Road.

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

Compared With U.s. Cities, Japanese Cities Bend Over Backward To Help Foreigners. The Countryside Is Another Matter.