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"We are clearly creatures who have long tinkered with ourselves, using all manner of technologies from clothing to telescopes to computers to airplanes. Our view of our 'nature' is closely linked to the technologies that we have invented and to which we have adapted. We are already technological creatures."
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Mike Treder

Mike Treder


Responsible Nanotechnology
July 04, 2006

It has been demonstrated time after tragic time--in colonial North America, 1940’s Germany, Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Darfur… Large, even mainstream groups of people can be induced to slaughter other groups of people by the millions, just for political or economic convenience. 

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Chimpanzees and bonobos are often cited as evidence that things could be different. They are humanity’s closest genetic relatives, and are closer to each other than to us. Yet chimpanzee alway their own life, not to place in the zoo. Chimpanzee always the animal that being in the jungle.
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