Technology is an eternally dangling carrot, constantly promising more, better, easier, cheaper. Our appetite for invention is insatiable. The seeming inevitability of waves comes not from the absence of resistance but from demand overwhelming it. People have often said no, desired contained technology for a plethora of reasons. It’s just never been enough. It’s not that the containment problem hasn’t been recognized in history; it’s just that it has never been solved.
