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If you think the pace of change    
has become too fast, consider that    
the brakes may already be on.         

Fast change happens in a field
only briefly, before opposing
forces have time to appear.
    
    An example I've heard:
    Medical advances advance 
    at a crawl, in part because 
    of the near impossibility of 
    doing experiments on human 
    volunteers.

    And this may be the era 
    when computer code 
    catches a legal code.
     
         Oh, and that idea for          NUKE
         a new improved nuclear         
         power plant?  Good luck...

Many people *don't like change*          
They work hard to to slow it             And in all honesty,  
down, and the legal system is            it's hard to blame   
a favorite technique.                    them because it often         
                                         seems that most      
   Another: voting for a                 innnovations suck in 
   standard political                    retrospect if not    
   slimeball because                     sooner.  
   you're used to having                        
   them around.                                      DRAG
        
     Idealists, after all,                                                 
     can be pretty scary    
     beasts.              
                               
                                                                           




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