I love WIRED magazine. I read it cover-to-cover every month.  If you want to know about a complex digital phenomenon such as Stuxnet, for example, read the story in WIRED. That's where Israeli and American brainiacs planted viruses and other malware in the Iranian nuclear program, thereby crippling it for several years.  The complexity of this operation was almost beyond human grasp.  Most of Iran's centrifuges and gauges were controlled by foreign enemies.  Motors ran at destructively high speeds, but the gauges said everything was fine. In one area, however, WIRED disappoints me greatly.  The editors don't seem to grasp that Stuxnet-like phenomena abound throughout American K-12. As with Stuxnet, you have viruses and malware planted in every public school.  Genuine, efficient education is virtually impossible to achieve.  Every aspect of the school's operation is compromised.  Gauges...(Read Full Article)