“The biological threat is greater than the nuclear; the acquisition of deadly pathogens, and their weaponization and dissemination in aerosol form, would entail fewer technical hurdles than the theft or production of weapons-grade uranium or plutonium and its assembly into an improvised nuclear device,” states the report.

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I hope that our government is preparing for this type of attack. As a citizen, I’m not sure how much “out of the box” thinking and response preparations are taking place.

For example, how do caregivers quickly recognize and respond to such an attack? Do they have the proper equipment and medicines to identify and treat such attacks? How does one contain people from spreading a biological attack ?

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With the increasing price oil, perhaps companies will begin to leverage technologies such as Microsoft Roundtable ? Perhaps leveraging such remote office technologies would also help the environment as well as productivity?

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I’ve read that the number of personal computers in the world will reach one billion by the end of 2008 and two billion by 2015.

What problems might be solved and diseases cured if all (or a substantial number) of the world’s workstations were working together for a greater cause?

Perhaps instead of Microsoft installing numerous 3D logo screensavers with every Windows install, Microsoft could install numerous distributed computing applications (from trustworthy sources) by default?

As a result, instead of the world’s workstations flashing the Window’s logo when not in use, the workstations would work on solving difficult problems. Of course, these distributed computing screensavers could be disabled (as with any screensaver) if the end user didn’t want to participate.

Perhaps Google could also offer an optional download of Folding@Home with all of their applications?

I suspect that all of our lives would be greatly improved if such a paradigm were to be embraced.

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