> This is the trend in the west. Technology is too powerful, we must control it! I take it that you're either too young or too untraveled to be aware of the le

> This is the trend in the west. Technology is too powerful, we must control it! I take it that you're either too young or too untraveled to be aware of the level of state control of technology in "the east". Xerographic machines, mimeographs, and other similar reprographic devices used to be highly controlled machinery behind the Iron Curtain. This is absolutely not something exclusive or even peculiar to "the west".