5/9/2023 0 Comments Book hacking darwin![]() ![]() ![]() And we are seeing it again in the promises of genetic engineering. We've seen it over and over again in the past 40 years of the computer revolution. We've seen the pattern play itself out in plastic surgery. We've seen the pattern in all the great technological changes of the first half of the 20th century, from the telephone to the automobile. The flagship is not the fleet-and the common uses will not be the highly attractive ones promised in the first sighting of the new technology. But once the technology becomes generally available, those wonderful uses prove the least of it. Each new potentially large-scale technology shimmers into public view with a promise of certain wonderful uses, always morally tinged and usually sentimentally phrased. ![]() And yet, our experience with the rapid industrial and scientific changes over the past 300 years suggests that new technologies trace a particular pattern as they move toward their unintended consequences. ![]()
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