Technology: taking the good without the bad?
Publication date: May 2002
Summary
Ian Pearson from BT exact explain how he was concerned that our scientific understanding was now lagging behind our ability to develop technology that could have profound effects. He pointed out that the number of technologies capable of causing human extinction was rising rapidly and would continue to do so over the next few decades. And these technologies would be cheap enough for any unhappy and suicidal teenager to work with.
