In Prometheus Bound, a play by Aeschylus, Prometheus is chained to a rock as punishment for giving humans the gift of fire (and thus technology). In addition, he gave us another gift: he made it impossible for us to foresee our own deaths. But since we still know that we can suffer and die (because we observe others doing so), this ignorance and uncertainty tends to make us miserable. We can use technology to predict the future, but this can also make things worse if the predictions are both accurate and dire. The chorus in the play asks Prometheus, “What cure did you discover for their
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