When Arnold Schwarzenegger was the Governor of California, he looked for ways to make savings in an effort to balance the California budget. He was particularly concerned about the high cost of school textbooks, which he considered to be outdated. Schwarzenegger, who portrayed a time-travelling robot killer in the Terminator films in which a computer network takes over the world, looked to information technology to solve the problem of the high cost of text books. He proposed that, as an alternative to books, students could be given handheld devices that store up-to-date books electronically and allow them access to online work for maths and science. Since students are experienced with computers and will readily accept the new technology, this is not just Hollywood sci-fi but common sense.