We cannot escape that "all our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end" (Thoreau). The perversion of knowledge is a paradox that was known to th

We cannot escape that "all our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end" (Thoreau). The perversion of knowledge is a paradox that was known to the writers of Genesis: it's the Tree of Knowledge that gets the first humans in trouble.