> we are at the same forefront of technology that those who created the atomic bombs were If the point you're making is that software developers should be as s

> we are at the same forefront of technology that those who created the atomic bombs were If the point you're making is that software developers should be as suspicious of harmful consequences of their work as the people at Los Alamos should have been of theirs -- well, it seems to me that the biggest hint of possible harmful consequences of the Los Alamos work probably wasn't the fact that they were working with new technology, so much as the fact that they were (explicitly, by design) working on more powerful devices for killing and destroying than the world had ever seen. I'm pretty sure all the scientists at Los Alamos had a pretty good idea they were developing things that might do harm. That was what they were for.