- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Banks and credit agencies learn continuously about the purchases we make. This is convenient and diminishes the risk of theft. It also means that banks can know more about our lifestyle than our close relatives.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
- Electricity
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- Nov 07, 2020
A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would think it wrong to edit the genes that influence the 'normal' range of human variation, from eye colour to intelligence or athletic ability.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.
- Mass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Industrialisation, mass transit, and the Internet are technological revolutions that have reshaped lives, nations, and the planet.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the values discussion gets conflated with the science discussion. We shouldn't pretend we're having an argument about science when we're having an argument about values.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a proponent of something monolithic.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all of research, and we need a balance.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020