Unlike during other great transitions, we have the science, the technology, and the ethical imagination necessary to understand the challenges we face before it is too late—if we choose to do so. As depicted earlier, we need to confront the reality that when bombarded with too many options, our default can be to rely on information that places few demands upon thinking. More and more of us would then think we know something based on information whose source was chosen because it conforms to how and what we thought before. Thus, though we are seemingly well armed, there begins to be less and
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