O brave new world, That has such people in’t!  — A Shakespeare warning found in today’s crossword puzzle.

We are strange species.  Are there others species on the planet who have so threatened to destroy themselves?  So constantly close to the edge of self-destruction of ourselves.  

Who would think, as little as a century ago, that we would be so smart that we could take apart the atoms were made of, that everything, so far as we know, is made of and begin to understand something of its workings and enable ourselves to do previously unimaginable things, and then that we could figure out how we could use our knowledge to destroy ourselves and potentially all life on our planet. Power like the meteor most now believe ended millions of years of dinosaurs that we now hold in a few paranoid and murderous. 

And that we could discover enough about amassing and retrieving information that we could raise a generation who believes that AI can do amazing things to the point that humans can addict themselves and make themselves more and more ignorant.  

And system if governing ourselves, systems that do not evolve, do not learn from our catastrophes, allow us to be more cruel to each other than has even been