Technology: a weapon of exclusion or a Promethean flame of enlightenment

Technology should be shared rather than used as a weapon of exclusion and control. At the heart of our inner-conflict with technology, are the competing visions of a eugenic technocracy versus a world of hope and enlightenment for all. As we break through the levels of reverse-engineering nature, the orders of magnitude suggest possibilities of orders of magnitude. Concentrative bottom-down manufacturing is inherently inelegant and violent; creating a lot of environmental collateral damage....