Think Of All The Human Suffering Caused

We Know From Our Recent History That English Did Not Come To Replace U.s. Indian Languages Merely Because English Sounded Musical To Indians' Ears. Instead, The Replacement Entailed English-speaking Immigrants' Killing Most Indians By War, Murder, And Introduced Diseases, And The Surviving Indians' Being Pressured Into Adopting English, The New Majority Language.

Human Societies Vary In Lots Of Independent Factors Affecting Their Openness To Innovation.

It Invites A Search For Ultimate Causes: Why Were Europeans, Rather Than Africans Or Native Americans, The Ones To End Up With Guns, The Nastiest Germs, And Steel?

Measles And Tb Evolved From Diseases Of Our Cattle, Influenza From A Disease Of Pigs, And Smallpox Possibly From A Disease Of Camels. The Americas Had Very Few Native Domesticated Animal Species From Which Humans Could Acquire Such Diseases.

Technology Causes Problems As Well As Solves Problems. Nobody Has Figured Out A Way To Ensure That, As Of Tomorrow, Technology Won't Create Problems. Technology Simply Means Increased Power, Which Is Why We Have The Global Problems We Face Today.