1.   As machines become more sophisticated, they become more likely to break down.

2.   For these users the desktop machine is becoming the information centre, and they require desktop access to archival material.

3.   And he had a derisive word for California-based Packard Bell, whose cheap machines have become a force in computer retailing.

4.   Anyone who has ever carried around a laptop computer knows even the lightest machine becomes a heavyweight over time.

5.   As computer chips speed up and fabrication machines become more sophisticated, the robotic designers will produce robots that are more and more complex.

6.   As machines have become steadily more complex and people have become steadily dumber, we now have reached the point where appliances arrive with instructors.

7.   But according to a new book by Edward Luttwak, the machine has become excessively lean and mean.

8.   But one day, these odd machines could become as common on the high ground of New England as television towers are today.

9.   Can a machine become overconfident?