If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we shou…

Peter Singer
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If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. ✨ Peter Singer (2016). Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter, p.300, Princeton University Press
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