alt Hacker NewsThe mistakes that lurked in radium, in arsenic, in leaded gas, in fallout downwind of nuclear tests ... all had the best tools that the previous generation knew.
None of them were okay. Those were small small tools with few (sometimes only one) uses.
Generations earlier, famines, diseases and lead-leeching plumbing made rulers insane and entire cities of people die without any help from the "best tools".
Scifi is always written about the best tools. The issues arrive in the tools and in the hands that wield them both.
There's nothing that makes this paper the be and and end all opinion pieces of the paper. The community will review his review, and people who wish to understand more will read more and more of the paper. I see nothing wrong with this process of progressive understanding.