time. Mankind had failed to learn from its own destructive track record. After all, it had devised fireworks and turned them into guns. It had discovered the power of nuclear fission and used it fashion bombs. It had invented passenger jets and made missiles of them. It had unlocked the secrets of chemistry and genetics, and used them to make weapons too. And then the final coup de grâce: brainware had been perverted, transformed into the perfect disseminator of a lethal virus, one last titanic mistake from which there could be no recovery. Nature was the only winner. And nature had no morals.
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