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The other way to look at it is, technology is delivering into the hands of individuals the ability to do what only governments could do earlier. Thus you have B
by ahk 17y ago
The other way to look at it is, technology is delivering into the hands of individuals the ability to do what only governments could do earlier. Thus you have Burt Rutan and other ragtag teams able to compete in the new space race to LEO and the moon.
Let the government take care of the weak and protect and preserve, that's what it's mainly for in a society, and leave the adventurism to the adventurous. Obama's steps seem consistent with this.
- angstrom 17y agoI couldn't agree more. This article was filled with the kind of fluffy juxtapose that says a lot by saying nothing at all about what's actually going on. We stand on the verge of the next great technological expansion of biology, information processing, energy, space exploration, and fundamental discoveries in physics. To assume we are anymore closer to a pinnacle now than we were 500 years ago is to be either complacent with what we've accomplished or too farsighted to see what is left to accomplish.