zeroing in

Just a few short days ago, I was sitting in my own home watching television.  I was relaxing after a long day of hard work.  Suddenly, I became aware that the guidance systems generated by a network of twenty-four military satellites had provided coordinates to Stealth fighter-bombers and Apache helicopters and that these enormously destructive weapons had discreetly focused laser guidance devices on my own home zeroing in on me through my digital cable pickup.  This is something that they can do to virtually any home in America at their pleasure.  And this capacity is present because of our own insistence that we have fiber-optic cable connections for TV, computer and telephone.  Please, folks, before it's too late, pause now in reading this letter, go into the living room and rip the TV cable from the wall.  Do not forget any upstairs or secondary sets you may have.

Now, my own home is a brick home and I selected it from a vast market of housing options precisely because an older brick home can withstand a lot.  But we are talking laser-guided cruise missiles here!

Curtis White, from his novel, Requiem.