About 14 years ago, when I was a parent of young children, as preparation for a talk at a doctors' meeting about vaccines, I surveyed (rather informally) parents - mostly mothers of course - waiting in the playground of our local primary school.

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How would you feel if you were a CEO of a large corporation and could not send your power point slides in preparation for an urgent meeting, because a bunch of teenagers were on an mission to download all Sci-Fi movies released this year ?

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In preparation for the meeting, construction workers built an elevated floor to make a level surface and covered the windows so no one could get a glimpse of the meeting.

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That meeting was in preparation for the upcoming G8 summit at a Baltic Sea resort in Germany, and that could be dominated by the Russian-American split as the foreign ministers' meeting was.

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