1. “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.” (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
2. “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that one way or another.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer 1965)
3. What's number 3 going to be? What is the next invention that epitomises 'Man' playing 'God' through the use of technology? Perhaps the omnipotent Internet? Maybe TV?
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