When you see it in this light, the practice can gain more urgency and IT can start taking its place not as a back office infrastructure but as a way to produce front office victories.
The practice came to light after Ticehurst resident Robert Hare boarded a Southeastern train to Stonegate, East Sussex, but later heard an announcement that the station would be missed out.
The main appeal of using an energy beam to shoot things is that it travels at the speed of light, which means, in practice, that it will hit whatever it is aimed at.