As with all tools humankind has developed since the beginning of time, the emphasis should be on whether the user of the tools becomes more curious, more innovative, more nuanced with his/her thinking as a result of using them. The first rule my mother and father ever taught me about anything and everything was, "Use whatever is around you wisely---don't let whatever is around you use you, unthinkingly." We have made so many mistakes as human beings by using the tools we have created without thinking about unintended outcomes and considering the prime question, "Just because we can do something, does that mean we should do it?" (Consider the use of the atomic bomb, the genetically modified organisms in our food, [banned in the European Union] and the Crispr manipulations that will be used to modify the genetic code of human beings [read the book, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood]
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As with all tools humankind has developed since the beginning of time, the emphasis should be on whether the user of the tools becomes more curious, more innovative, more nuanced with his/her thinking as a result of using them. The first rule my mother and father ever taught me about anything and everything was, "Use whatever is around you wisely---don't let whatever is around you use you, unthinkingly." We have made so many mistakes as human beings by using the tools we have created without thinking about unintended outcomes and considering the prime question, "Just because we can do something, does that mean we should do it?" (Consider the use of the atomic bomb, the genetically modified organisms in our food, [banned in the European Union] and the Crispr manipulations that will be used to modify the genetic code of human beings [read the book, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood]
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