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Later, we all snickered at some writers who viewed Dad as a grand strategist who intuitively developed complex plans and implemented them with precision. Dad thrived on change, and no decision was ever sacred.
Sam Walton
Sam Walton and John Huey
The terrorists of today and tomorrow may no longer have to worry about struggling to obtain access to controlled pathogens and biological agents from government labs. With the advent of synbio, they can just download the genetic sequence blueprints and print these deadly viruses themselves. The full-length genetic codes of some of the world’s deadliest pathogens including Ebola and Spanish flu are freely available for download in the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s DNA sequence database.
Future Crimes
Marc Goodman
But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long, close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.
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