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> I used to have nightmares about the scene I saw there, but now I think of how great it is So many people are not able to get over the grief (or fear, or guil
by squigz 3y ago
> I used to have nightmares about the scene I saw there, but now I think of how great it is
So many people are not able to get over the grief (or fear, or guilt, or a hundred other emotions) that are usually associated with this sort of equipment, so they're forever seen as a sort of necessary evil - perhaps similar to military technology: something we know we have to have and have to develop, but not something we want to use, or embrace. I wonder if more people looked at these technologies and their potential applications with a bit more optimism, how things might advance.
- ok_dad 3y agoThe only reason I got over it was I worked at a medical device assembly factory and saw firsthand how amazing it was that hundreds of people worked together to design test and build life saving devices. I stopped caring about the blood and started rooting for miniaturization, like how computers my mother used were in rooms and today everything has a computer in it. It’s hard though because our natural and trained response is to be grossed out.