PI-5948 License No. SPY High-Tech Gadgets and Secret Weapons Remain the Lusty Leader in the Spy Fascination Game. That's who almost every boy in America wants to be at some point in his life. Mata Hari aside, spying seems like mostly a boy thing. We grow up reading the Hardy Boys and like-minded books, and going to movies.
Many young males get into martial arts, guns and other weapons.
We want to wear trench coats, our pockets crammed with miniature cameras, micro-cassette recorders, pens that shoot flame across the room. We want MacIntosh Powerbooks, which seem to be the latest de riguer spy equipment, if we believe the movies. We want to be spooks, loaded down with secret weapons, our fedoras rakishly tilted. Governments spy on each other, and sometimes on us. Corporations spy on each other and their employees.