The paper-less office and the cash-less society have long been held up as desirable outcomes of mass computerization.

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That leadership took the form of investment from independence in 1991 in computerization.

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Finally, that the computerization of elections has led to the privatization of electoral software has created a dangerous situation.

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But with increased computerization, networking, wireless communications and cloud computing means more opportunities for hacking, malware, and all the problems that go with them.

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The probe comes as the government investigators who focus on potential market abuses have been widening their horizons because of the computerization of markets.

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Robochemistry, the science of applying computerization on a huge scale to drug molecule research, is about where computing was when IBM produced an all-transistor calculator in 1957.

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Surveying the impact of computerization on his pharmaceutical industry, Lillys Martin Haslanger says: We are going to have far smarter drugs than the ones we have today.

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This is because this industry is so susceptible to computerization.

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Two related stories at New Scientist caught my eye this week, because they speak to one of the sad truths of the increased computerization of the economy the more we computerize, the more threats there are.

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