We don't have a guaranteed future. There is no force out there that will allow us to do anything we want and ensure that everything will turn out all right in the end. We have to be collectively responsible for our own future. What worries Trigger is that technological advances are zooming past our ability to cope with the changes they inevitably bring. It's what you do with it that counts.
Technology can help cure diseases and it can lead to weapons of mass destruction.
Thousands of years ago, if somebody built a better spear, the implications weren't that large. There really is a danger that rapid technological change can wreck the planet. We might also come up with a cheap, environmentally friendly power source through technology. The point is, we can't see into the future. If we just sit back and let technological advances do the driving, we might end up somewhere we didn't want to go, warns Trigger.