For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
People don't want to talk about death just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
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If the markets had behaved badly that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm… but there has been a lot of reassurance coming particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.