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What can be done about our modern-day Frankensteins?

  • Written by Adam Briggle, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas
imageCan technology be tamed? Or have we already lost complete control?Tom Simpson, CC BY-NC-ND

In 1797, at the dawn of the industrial age, Goethe wrote “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” a poem about a magician-in-training who, through his arrogance and half-baked powers, unleashes a chain of events he cannot control.

About 20 years later,...

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