Technology is a powerful instrument for good, but it has also given the possibility for just a few people to cause enormous damage.

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But law is a blunt instrument for solving problems of having more technology than social practices guiding its use.

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The technology industry is racing to instrument and connect a vast range of things and processes in the physical and digital worlds.

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"The basic idea of a hyperinstrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is, " Machover says.

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At a time of rising competition from India and China--not only in manufacturing but also in high tech--and of concern over jobs creation at home, we're about to seriously handicap our own cutting-edge technology companies and domestic startups by crippling an instrument that's key to their survival and success.

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The early underpinnings of Helixis' smaller, cheaper instrument began in 2005 in a basement lab at the California Institute of Technology.

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The result, which is more a kinetic sculpture representing his own deep dreams than an instrument to keep track of the daily grind, contains some of the most complicated horological technology known to watchmaking.

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The technology, based around an "organic semiconductor" called pentacene (a hydrocarbon molecule) and a comparative instrument known as a Wheatstone bridge, can be embedded in fabrics such as undershirts and coupled with wireless transmitters.

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