Space-age science and stone-age politics make an extraordinarily
dangerous mixture. It seems probable that in the future, the rapidity of
scientificand technological change will produce ethical dilemmas and
social tensions even more acute than those we experience today. It is
likely that the fate of our species (and the fate of the biosphere) will
be made precarious by the astonishing speed of scientific and
technological change unless this progress is matched by the achievement
of far greater ethical and political maturity than we have yet attained.