IN THE wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, all kinds of fancy machines—from facial-recognition databases to advanced luggage scanners to glorified autopilots—have been proposed as technological fixes in the fight against terrorism. So what do such technologies have to offer? http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=787987
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