Hi-tech

Cells are cybernetic multimolecular cities, full of hi-tech machines, power plants, and even nanorobots.

Efforts to combat the problem have taken on urgency, but there is growing debate on how best to foil hi-tech offenders.

River hadn't laid eyes on Hobden before, but this had to be him: average height, thinning brownish hair, look of terror as he turned to face this new intrusion even while crushed in an arm-lock by the previous invader, the achiever—except this wasn't an achiever: he was blackclad, wore a balaclava, had a utility belt round his waist, but the ensemble lacked the hi-tech tailoring of the genuine article.

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.