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The Future Needs Us
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16053
By Freeman J. Dyson
"Michael Crichton's Prey brings us an important message: that biotechnology in the twenty-first century is as dangerous as nuclear technology in the twentieth. The dangers do not lie in any particular gadgets such as nanorobots or autonomous agents. The dangers arise from knowledge, from our inexorably growing understanding of the basic processes of life. The message is that biological knowledge irresponsibly applied means death. And we may hope that the world will listen. What is the appropriate response to dangers that are hypothetical and poorly understood?"
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