Which Future for Humanity?

摘要

In the movie The Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo a choice between a red pill and a blue pill: "You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." In Our Final Hour, Martin Rees eloquently describes a real-world choice now facing contemporary society: Do we follow science and technology where it takes us, hope for the best, and deal with the consequences? Or, instead, do we believe that the risks to humanity presented by advances in science and technology require a fundamental rethinking of the governance of the research and development enterprise?