The Future of Your Flying Laptop: Packing a laptop computer inside checked baggage should strike fear into the hearts of most business travelers, especially on long-haul flights across the Atlantic.

You know what happens on that conveyor belt… If you ever see that laptop again, you can rest assured that it has made three more connecting flights than you, and been manhandled in the process.

Oh well. At least your laptop will arrived well lubricated. All those exploding bottles of lotion, shampoo and aftershave in the depressurized hold will make sure of it.

Yuck.

In the wake of the London terror arrests, that is what passengers in and out of Heathrow must live through for the foreseeable future.

All those computer junkies, trapped in a jet cabin, simultaneously going through computer separation anxiety, will not be pretty.

Relax. It could be worse.

You are on the first flight in ten years where you are not required to answer fifty-seven emails or punch out a PowerPoint.

So have another adult beverage and thank your lucky stars you are not the mother made to drink her own breast milk to prove it was not a bomb.