Sometimes two stories are destined to intersect. For me two stories just did!
First story: Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the transaction tool of an underground economy. The users of this currency work for each other and pay in bit coin. One bitcoin is worth about $US5 according to wikipedia. If you want to know about bitcoin wikipedia is a great start.
I heard of a server being discovered working with bitcoin. I asked what someone would do with a server to generate bitcoin. Here I learned a second term rainbow table. The suggestion was that a technician had compromised a server and was using it to create rainbow tables and being paid in bit coin.

Digital Myth
A teacher once argued with me about digital natives and digital immigrants. He asserted, in a public class

• digital natives are a myth
• that “millenials think differently” is a ploy
• the multitasking brain is a scam. 

“The multitasking brain of our youth,” he claimed, “is a myth propagated by big business to get more work out of individuals for less money.”
He may be right but I believe I have observed an improvement in student outcomes when they are allowed to work with music playing and a chat client running alongside their work. 
His argument was that technology in the work place was a big business plot to drive greater productivity from workers purely for profit. 
I love my technology and discounted all he had to say - once I stopped being cross.