xxiv ◾ Forewords to the Second Edition
America. How many kids show up the next day, and how we do rebuild condence
in our ability to protect our progeny?
Imagine: e above weapons aimed at suburban malls. Or public mass trans-
portation systems.
is scares the livin’ I.T. out of me. Someone is going to do it, and outside of a
few private conversations, fear overrides a public discussion.
Imagine: Huge progress in prosthetics, bioelectronic implants, and amazing tech-
nologies allow quadriplegics embedded with brain-control devices to reanimate their
lives. ey allow the blind to see and the deaf to hear, and they permit the reconstruc-
tion of nervous system circuits. What do directed energy pulses or streams do to these
devices, and what happens ...