(It’s a metaphorical promise, by the way. What’s a prime minister to do? Britain’s current leader decides she needs to attack the problem from two fronts.įirst, she hopes to gussy up the empire’s laggard tech with help from Jason Xander, a strapping young digital guru who promises the world to countries that sign on with him. ![]() And worse yet, the identities of all its secret agents have been compromised. All the empire’s trains are rerouted to a sleepy little stop up north. And that’s a problem: All the traffic lights turn red at the same time and stay that way. Oh, the country has its share of Wi-Fi hotspots, of course, but the government’s tech-dependent services keep getting hacked. In this new world, jolly old England is feeling distinctly less jolly, unquestionably more old. Technology rules the modern roost, and those who don’t understand it are liable to get kicked out of the coop. These days, clandestine conflicts aren’t waged with weaponized shoes or acid-shooting fountain pens, but in the binary realm of ones and zeros. ![]() ![]() Certainly one needs to be up on the latest spy-related gizmos: One can’t get much mileage out of an exploding snuff box today.Īnd indeed, the 21st century has brought about its share of contemporary challenges for would-be spies. Secret agents need a certain amount of agility to thwack evildoers in the craw and a full head of hair to convince femme fatales not to be quite so … fatale. Granted, not everyone would agree with that last entry.
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