Perhaps it is always hard to see the bigger impact while you are in the vortex of a change. Failing to understand the consequences of our inventions while we are in the rapture of discovery and innovation seems to be a common fault of scientists and technologists; we have long been driven by the overarching desire to know that is the nature of science’s quest, not stopping to notice that the progress to newer and more powerful technologies can take on a life of its own.
Bill Joy. (2000) ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’, Wired, 1 April. Available at: https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/