The director of the Manhattan Project Robert Oppenheimer went on a public speaking tour to apologising for his part in creating the atomic bom. It was Von Neuma

The director of the Manhattan Project Robert Oppenheimer went on a public speaking tour to apologising for his part in creating the atomic bom. It was Von Neumann who cynically remarked that: One cannot apologise for something without also first claiming it as one's own accomplishment. Wether is the atomic bom or Facebook, I am sure they would have existed without their conscientious defectors. There is something much stronger at play, be it nuclear fusion in physics or information asymmetry in economics. I share in the concern of McNamee and Oppenheimer, but Technological Humanism often leaves us with impossible technology and bad business.