We live in a world of great excitement and great uncertainty, hastened by advances in science and technology that few, if any of us, fully grasp: artificial intelligence, autonomous drones, synthetic organisms, the Internet of Things, to name a few.
This accelerating pace of change seems to propel us into the future, causing us to wonder who’s in charge—or perhaps to plead, like George Jetson running in his Space Age cartoon, on an ever-faster treadmill, “Stop this crazy thing!”
