The Space Between Heaven and Hell

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One story holds the promise of unlimited technological progress that will solve all of our problems. The other paints an inevitable apocalypse in all of its gruesome details. In their very extremism, both stories are wrong. The truth lives somewhere in between, in a place we are too terrified to even visit: neither heaven nor hell, but a blurry no man’s land of uncertainty and compromise. We hide our fear behind grand statements and the confident stride of one who knows what’s what. In the process, we forget that it is in that scariest of places that opportunity reveals itself.

 

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