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Computers & Technology > Computers & Technology (Other) Does the abundance of technology help or impede homeland terrorism-fighting effectiveness?

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Computers can calculate at staggering speed, but cannot match the human visual system's uncanny ability to assemble a coherent picture from ambiguous fragments in an image. The brain seems to home in effortlessly on the correct interpretation by using built-in knowledge of the statistics of the world to eliminate improbable solutions. (V. S. Ramachandran/Scientific American Mind )

What are the lessons from the past

Technology can easily become a double-edged sword. There is no doubt that technology is a vital component in national security. The question remains though, to what extent ...

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