[tet68]

However, two years later (according to the scenario), a paramilitary group allied to the rebels released a particularly potent strain of anthrax up-wind of the huge US spy base at Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, killing many people in the surrounding area and leading to a bitter row between London and Washington.

In other words, what may appear to be a seductive and effective way of maintaining control may, in the longer term, have a very different effect.

Hmmmmmm. somehow I don't see the connection.

[demlosers]

It looks very much as if we are at the beginning of a technology revolution with extremely uncertain consequences.

This author ends in a negative, he's not a fan. Many of his BUTS are just silly... well what if the bad guys do this or that, implying direct energy weapons can become ineffective easily. Also what you pointed out, the guy displays incoherent logic.