January 4th, 2008
Aim and Fire
The best measure of an invention is how dangerous it is. How you define danger and who is in danger are mere details. This is as true in the information age as it has ever been; name your own analogies for stirrups and cranks.
Transcriptorial: Invention is dangerous.
Let me give you the most abstract definition of danger I can think of:
The ability to force a change upon something.
If I use that, I completely agree with the above.
Lessee, do I put my refined uranium in a power reactor or the bomb I drop on my enemies?