There may be no traffic lights in Thimpu, the capital of Bhutan, but there is wireless Internet. The Bhutanese tried traffic lights, but soon got rid of them. People did not like the impersonal flashing lights, so they went back to a traffic officer in white gloves. This selectivity is just one example of how the Bhutanese are handling a difficult transition in their society. They have begun introducing modern technology while carefully guarding their thousandyear. old way of life. For many years, geography and politics helped to maintain Bhutan's isolation. This sparsely populated democracy is high in the Himalayan mountains between India and China. Most of it is protected forest, and many villages are not accessible by roads. Nearly 70 percent of the population work in agriculture. Also, only a few tourists are allowed to visit every year. These tourists can easily be spotted among the Bhutanese, who dress traditional clothing. Today, however, a need for increased access country modernize its health-care system. Faced with a shortage of hospitals, doctors, and money leaders have skipped many of the traditional tobuilding infrastructure. Rather than building roads andlandlines, they havegonestraight to wireless technology. Today doctors in Bhutan's remote villages use wireless technology to send harder cases, along with X rays and other supporting material, to Japan, ndia, and other countries. Experts in those countries evaluate the cases and back treatment suggestions. In less than half the time it would take to send a patient to a hospital by ambulance (Twenty or more hours in many instances, the village doctoris able to treat the patient.