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Last weekend's London summit was not pointless. And the working group on high technology should seize the opportunities for building a rational framework for innovation.
A new study of IQ among adopted siblings points to hereditable intelligence, but inconclusively. Geneticists (and others) should not however be fearful of a determination of the question.
The laboratory application of computers is being extended rapidly, but there is some way to go before the penetration of these machines is as complete as, say, that of the Bunsen burner.
