The danger, says Peter Horst of TruSecure, is that: "People buy a hunk of shining technology, wipe their brow and say, 'Great, I've taken care of it,' when they might have been better off saving money and doing something simple in terms of policy and process".
In the first half of the movie, which sketches this background and introduces various characters, the children team up with some good Digimon to thwart an evil Digimon that invades the Internet, thus threatening, as one little boy puts it, to "wipe out all technology as we know it".
It is biologically possible, using existing technology, to wipe out measles entirely.
"One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing you have the technology to wipe out your whole neighborhood," one booklet declares.
To him, the fact that this technology will wipe out a lot of jobs became quite real that night.
Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his colleagues from Oregon Health and Science University have successfully used the CRISPR Cas9 gene editing technology to wipe out a genetically inherited heart mutation in embryos.
Joy's real worries though concern the capacity of gene editing technology to wipe out genetic diversity.
It could be that beautiful places will always offer too many real pleasures for technology to wipe them out.
While such a technology could wipe out malaria and the use of pesticides like DDT to kill its insect vector, it also begs for boundaries on what's acceptable.
Sci-fi blockbuster (1984) may be about a humanoid robot who has it in for a single human woman, but he's from a future where humans have largely been wiped out by technology of their own creation that gained sentience.
A US analyst estimated Amazon's technology might eventually wipe out three quarters of US grocery store jobs.
