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"This is a book about technology, but even more, it's a book about humans...Forget all the talk about machines taking over. What happens in the future is up to us."

"So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight-and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer."

"So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight-and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer."

"This is a book about technology, but even more, it's a book about humans...Forget all the talk about machines taking over. What happens in the future is up to us."

"This is a book about technology, but even more, it's a book about humans...Forget all the talk about machines taking over. What happens in the future is up to us."

"I decide who gets my money after I die. It wouldn't harm me if I died and you gave all my money to someone else. But there's something psychologically beneficial to me as a living person to know I can give my money to whoever I want. No one can say, 'she shouldn't be allowed to do that with her money because that might not be most beneficial to society'. But replace the word money in the sentence with tissue..."

"He chose the Ohio prison because its inmates had cooperated in several other studies without resistance, including one in which they'd been infected with a potentially deadly disease called tularemia..."

"...but the honorable justice also got lost in the science, at one point referring to the stratosphere when he meant the troposphere. A lawyer for Massachusetts replied, 'respectfully, Your Honor. It is not the stratosphere. It's the troposphere.' The justice answered, 'Troposphere, whatever. I told you before I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to deal with global warming.'"

"...but the honorable justice also got lost in the science, at one point referring to the stratosphere when he meant the troposphere. A lawyer for Massachusetts replied, 'respectfully, Your Honor. It is not the stratosphere. It's the troposphere.' The justice answered, 'Troposphere, whatever. I told you before I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to deal with global warming.'"

"...but the honorable justice also got lost in the science, at one point referring to the stratosphere when he meant the troposphere. A lawyer for Massachusetts replied, 'respectfully, Your Honor. It is not the stratosphere. It's the troposphere.' The justice answered, 'Troposphere, whatever. I told you before I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to deal with global warming.'"