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Examines implications of the increasingly rapid development of information-age technologies for terrorist activities. Recently extant & expected innovations from domestic terrorists are analyzed in terms of the expectations & motivations of late-20th-century terrorists & the emergence of 21st-century cyberterrorism & cyberbiotechnological terrorism. Potential terrorist targets & tactics are discussed. It is argued that, as user-friendly computers become less expensive & more available, so also will cyberspace crime & terrorism, which will appear in the vanguard US first. The potential use of these same technologies for counterterrorism is assessed. It is concluded that the most effective method against future high-technology terrorist activities lies not in technology, but in the ethics & values of a free society. T. Arnold