"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger.".

The article highlights various issues concerning information technology in the U.S. as of July 2004. The promise of new text-mining platforms for building sophisticated answer products is only matched by the dangers in accepting those answers without vigorous monitoring. Such vigorous monitoring will not come from end-user clients. Such monitoring takes discipline, focus, persistence, and time. For many years now, through several generations of Windows' development, Microsoft has been trying more and more of its feature improvements and the quickest way of reaching key features in its programs, to the right-click button on the mouse. Yet Microsoft studies show that 75 percent of Windows users do not use the right-click button. Windows' market dominance means practically everyone with a computer uses Windows to do everything they do on a computer. Yet only a quarter of them take the trouble to use a second finger in tapping the potential of the software they use. The world is moving closer to the realization of the science-fiction dream of computers that can protect one from harm on their own initiative. The sense of safety and security has such appeal that it could lure users into believing without checking, into trusting without monitoring, into acting upon information without verifying its accuracy.