It's where we start to redefine ourselves. And we have to do that for our health and well being, but it will be fraught with enormous danger and controversy and difficulty. All technology has that issue associated with it. I think we have to begin to no longer think of it as neutral, and we need to begin to understand that it embodies its consequences, both good and bad. And information technologies have an incredibly wonderful power to them, but they do also deliver violence steadily to children, so it also has its darker side.
Genetic technologies are truly the most revolutionary of the technologies that are coming along.
It is the thing that is going to shape the next century. We need to put these technologies in the human context to understand how they can best be applied. You know, technology and society really interact as if they are dancing partners. It really isn't that the technology is purely accepted, nor is it that it is purely market-driven. One of the most wonderful things about the new technologies is the concept of programmability.