Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
Brian Aldiss imagined nuclear weapons fracturing time, enabling a twenty first century man both to meet Mary Shelley and to confront her character.
Poul Anderson imagined human beings creating post-organic intelligences and one post-organic re-creating extinct humanity.
Meanwhile, we live with global warming and nuclear sabre-rattling. First, science fiction addresses our condition. Secondly, I think that mankind can control its own technology - but needs to do it.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
To answer your first question, humans being what they are, scientific knowledge will be used for both enhancing life and destructively.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: Yup. You can give human beings the powers of Gods, but that doesn't make them Gods -- at least, not the nicer variety, not consistently.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Absolutely true! Give humans godlike powers and it's a dead certainty some will be like the demon gods of the Aztecs.
Ad astra! Sean
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