The technology for doing this has progressed remarkably far, but not yet far enough.
The purpose of that inconvenience is to prove that the passport's bearer is who he says he is.The original technology for doing this was photography.
But some commercial outfits can envisage a desperate world paying them princely sums for access to the technology for doing it.
Major e-reader companies like Amazon.com, which sells the Kindle, and Barnes & Noble, seller of the Nook, have not announced that they are offering color versions, or that they are committed to a specific technology for doing so.
Cars that keep drivers on the straight-and-narrow include models from Audi, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Infiniti and Volvo.The technology for doing all these things is becoming amazingly reliable and cheap.
And the most reliable way to ensure a large number of casualties is to release an inhalable aerosol over a wide area, but the technology for doing this is out of the reach of all but the most sophisticated and well-funded terrorists.
The technology for doing this in humans, says Tilly, is still years away.
The technology for doing that is being developed, and the ENCODE project – the Encyclopaedia of DNA elements – has put it to good use, compiling a catalogue of the various regulatory sequences in our own genome.
But within the walled garden of Facebook, which contains by far the largest collection of personal photographs in the world, the technology for doing all that is beginning to blossom.
Yet Wall Street provided plenty of reasons for wise individuals to stay away.Mr Levitt was considered a possible SEC head under President Reagan but, given his predilections, perhaps it was appropriate that his tenure began in 1993, just as popular enthusiasm for investing, and technology for doing so efficiently, was emerging (see charts).
