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The good, the bad and the brilliant

4 October 2003

“TECHNOLOGY,” said the English writer and physicist C. P. Snow, “brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” That view more or less sums up the double-edged nature of technology and people’s reactions to it. Trying to predict the pros and cons of new inventions and how society will take to them is a tough task, but that’s where Âé¶¹´«Ã½ comes in.

Technology and its impacts have always been among our central interests, and from this week we will be bringing all our technology coverage together in one new section …

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