10-01-2009, 04:08 PM
Quote: I think you are right. Between nanotechnology, and biotechnology we will come up with some pretty amazing things in the next 50 years.
And I envy you both your optimism, but I just had a flashback from a song by George Jones:
Quote:Now the race is on
And here comes pride in the backstretch
...
the race is on and it looks like heartaches
and the winner loses all
The chemical soup that we live in isn't going to get better anytime soon. The young of today are soaked in it from conception. Heck, it is worse than that. They are the product of eggs that were soaked in it from their conception. We barely know what each chemical does to us, let alone the effects of the interactions.
We can be proud of the research but we and (more importantly) our children still have to (try to) live with the legacy of the headlong rush to do it better that created that chemical soup. I am feeling less and less sanguine about our chances.
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake