BYTE-SIZE BLUES

IT SEEMS LIKE you can't read the news nowadays without hearing about some new technology that could fundamentally change the lives of people-ideally other people.

- Samit Basu

I don't know about you, but despite being fairly tech-friendly my initial reaction is usually one of alarm. And not for big-picture reasons, but for fairly personal ones. Since the dawn of the digital age, one of my permanent concerns about the ever-increasing role of technology in daily life has been the enthusiastic participation of my mother on every possible cutting-edge platform.