It is comical how easily one can be ignored for pointing out that new technology is dangerous and fetishistic. So-called “smart� cell phones are a prime example. For years I have been pointing out their dangers on many levels. To say most people are devoted to them is an understatement. Maybe it is an exaggeration... Read More

For decades rumors have swirled inconclusively about an alleged causal link between cellphone use and brain tumors. Now, in a decision that has hitherto received little publicity in the United States, an Italian court may have opened the floodgates to a torrent of lawsuits against cellphone makers and service suppliers. The decision was handed down... Read More

I was out shopping on Saturday and found myself following a dark blue minivan down the main street of a nearby town here in northern Virginia. We had just left the town limits when a small boy about four years old climbed out the left rear window of the car and sat on the door... Read More

Well traveled Americans know that cellphones inJapan have long led the world in innovation. Yet Japanese handset makers have never enjoyed much success in selling their spectacular products abroad. What gives? The conventional wisdom is that the Japanese have been stymied by something called the Galapagos Syndrome: like the strange animals and plants that Darwin... Read More