SCIENTISTS surely have a SPECIALRESPONSIBILITY. It is their ideas that form the basis of NEW technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.
It's IMPORTANT with any new TECHNOLOGY to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We CHOOSE to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we REGRET them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically BAD.
I think every age LIVES in a blend of technology so there's ALWAYS older ONES mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology GOES down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies BACK.
When are boots in the ground no longer going to have to EVEN be people, and is that right? When does it become 'Star WARS?' When is enough enough? When do we put this time and ENERGY into eliminating war or REASONS for war instead of creating new technology to make war EASIER for us?
I think WRITERS have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. YES, it's HARD to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right STORY.
At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that MAKES the viewer EXPERIENCE of our MOVIES better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the PICTURE quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.