I concur with the suggestion for Bill Joy's article. It is well worth reading, and reconsidering over and over as time goes on. Recognizing our fallibilities is important -- and thinking about whether to proceed, and if there will be a way out of what we do is worthy of discussion. We are always prone to thinking we understand it all, or at least enough.
On the same lines of 'a cautionary tale' (apologies to Maurice Sendak), please consider Amory Lovins' "How No to Parachute More Cats'.
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-C...
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I concur with the suggestion for Bill Joy's article. It is well worth reading, and reconsidering over and over as time goes on. Recognizing our fallibilities is important -- and thinking about whether to proceed, and if there will be a way out of what we do is worthy of discussion. We are always prone to thinking we understand it all, or at least enough. On the same lines of 'a cautionary tale' (apologies to Maurice Sendak), please consider Amory Lovins' "How No to Parachute More Cats'. http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-C...