I'm treating this as a cultural question. Before the Second World War, people in the United States generally embraced "progress." "Inventors" such as Eli Whitney, Cyrus McCormick, Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, the Wright Brothers, Guglielmo Marconi were culture heroes. The development of the "atomic bomb," as it was then called, changed things, as it became clear that the United States was not going to have a monopoly on nuclear weapons, and as the public became aware of fallout. Nuclear weapons ushered in an era in which technology was regarded with a mixture of awe and fear. I do not know what the future holds. Sometimes I think humankind is doomed, but I think it is more likely we will muddle through. It is a human problem, not a technology problem; Charles Fort said "A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time." That is, good, bad, or indifferent, a technology inevitably gets developed once it is possible.

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I'm in disagreement with you. The good use of science and technology do the world more comfortable.