It was his character, after all, who expressed the appropriate shock concerning the amazing lack of humility being displayed by other scientists, playing with their new instrumentality; as if that instrumentality were just another gizmo to make a proper amount of money with because they were the first, with the cleverest new application. And then summing it all up with the, to paraphrase, standing on the shoulders of others speech, and how, just because you can do a thing, doesn't necessarily mean you should. Not if you really gave a moment to think about the possibility of a whole host of other, unintended effects, that you might be putting into play, down the road. You know. In the long view that they don't seem to know how to pay much attention to anymore.
And so the blowback on that becomes a tax of another sort that working people have to pay, for the most part. And a lot of it, though certainly not all of it, can be laid at the feet of the system that makes the dynamic create not only too many dangerous competitions in the first place, but also incentivizes people precisely towards this kind of vary narrow thinking, and self servingly, "disruptive" behavior.
An Ode to Dr. Ian Malcolm
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