No Tech Phobia

Scoble mentions his fear that airlines will take away his electronic equipment on flights. "Gosh, what will I need to do? Read a book?" he writes. "Next someone will figure out how to turn paper into some sort of weapon." I know what he's saying, but couldn't you say that books already are weapons? In the history of the world, words have killed more men than bombs. Ideology, religion and dogma have motivated many men to do some horrible, horrible things.