When I was a child, there was a tv show titled Bionic Woman; it was the female version of an already running show titled Six Million Dollar Man. The premises of these shows were that regular people were given bionic body parts. In both of these instances, they suffered devastating bodily injuries and are given enhanced technology to restore/improve their functioning. Ultimately, they both end up working for the government as secret operatives. So while I would support the use of technology to restore normal functioning in the case of serious bodily injury, I would absolutely be against the use of such technology for military purposes. Several years after the airing those tv shows, Terminator and Robo Cop arrived on the big screens. A warning of the frightening consequences of misuse of advanced technologies for military purposes.
After acing Discrete Mathematics, my senior year math class in high school, I was sure that I was a math genius. I even schooled my teacher on Pascal's triangle. Majoring in mathematics in college was a no-brainer; I had this. But the universe is a cruel teacher and I was quickly humbled. I knew nothing of mathematics. Chemists everywhere may be experiencing a similar humbling since Uspex came on the scene. Granted it was hubris to assume that we could have mastered chemistry. Our existence is so complex and so too is everything that contributes to it. The upside to these discoveries of compounds acting in "unexpected" ways, is that we can now develop more efficient technology and improve our understanding of medicine. Which could in turn provide a way to save our planet from the mess we have made.
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