Counter point. We must learn how to responsibly manage extremely dangerous materials and technologies. It is the only way we can avoid inevitable extinction at

Counter point. We must learn how to responsibly manage extremely dangerous materials and technologies. It is the only way we can avoid inevitable extinction at our own hands as technology advances. Atomic weapons are no longer the only existential threat we are capable of wielding, we are rapidly approaching the ability to engineer de novo viruses and eventually self replicating cells. We already possess the means to create autonomous weapons systems and are improving upon them daily. As access to space becomes commercialized it will become increasingly trivial to deliver un-interceptable payloads to anywhere on earth and they needn't be explosive since a large enough mass travelling fast enough is more than capable of demolishing any building. Extrapolate further into the future and if we master high enough energy density batteries or capacitors then we start having to worry about directed energy weapons, imagine a hand held device capable of generating an instantaneous lethal dose of X-rays. I'm sure we're also capable of thinking up a long list of even more deadly weapons let alone beneficial technologies that could be mishandled. We can't turn back to a simpler time, we have to take the bull by the horns.