On a larger scale, a nation, instead of using bombs or rockets, may develop technology that will totally disrupt the fabric of the computer network. By using an overloading electronic pulse they can cause all computers to crash in a chosen country. A surge protector won't help them. Everything, cars, grocery stores, gas stations, banks, newspapers, and television stations will cease to function. Large corporations, which make our products so we can live without having to search for food in the forest, will shut down, machines will be silenced and the economy could collapse overnight.
Computer technology is nearly limitless.
Barriers break down after which computer evolution takes another giant stride forward. Soon, for those who can afford it, talking to a computer will be as easy as talking to another human. Think of the potential. A Fire in the Mind, inc.