Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the huma…

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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p.476, Ballantine Books
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