What man does for his own desires and comforts affects the complex total-of-life, the ecology, and his short-term gains can bring long-term disadvant… - Isaac Asimov

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What man does for his own desires and comforts affects the complex total-of-life, the ecology, and his short-term gains can bring long-term disadvantages. The Machines taught us to set up a human society which would minimize that, but the near-disaster of the early Twenty-first Century has left mankind suspicious of innovations.