The baby is a tech variation on the "carry an egg" pregnancy prevention program once used by teachers to make their young charges think twice before indulging in any hanky panky. ... The crying can only be stopped when its "parent" inserts a key into the control unit on the doll's back. And when the experiment is over, a detailed record of the student's performance is printed out, revealing such perceived abuses as neglect and shaking.
...meanwhile, a laboratory at Stanford attempts to develop the most devious, underhanded and manipulative technologies imaginable:
At the fictitious site, a jealous wife is taunted with provocative phrases like, "Do you know where your husband is?" Once convinced of a probable infidelity, the suspicious missus registers for a service that will scan her husband's email for selected keywords, like "sex," "passion," and "kill." The service uses a Trojan horse that she has sent to her husband in the form of an innocuous-looking e-greeting.(from Wired News, via GirlHacker's Random Log)
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