mmotyka@lsil.com wrote:
Shit, so much for ordering mushroom spores by mail! Hopefully UPS and fedex won't follow suit.
Another option might be for each package to be dropped into a poly bag, heat sealed and rinsed before being handled by staff.
Our society has, for all practical purposes, endless vulnerabilities. If as each vulnerability is exploited we plan on taking drastic steps to secure it from future exploitation, the costs will be staggering and the list of unsecured items will hardly diminish. The result of the current approach is an authoritarian society with a neverending, self-justifying security project ahead of it. Sounds like a wonderful place to live if you're an insect.
So we get either the Caves of Steel or the Naked Sun? I'd go for the former, being a city boy, but I guess T. May, H. Seaver & D. Honig might prefer the hyper-exurbia of the latter. One step from the Machine Stops - set not in the ultimate city but in the ultimate suburb. Ken