Being afraid to do things because they might possibly, but never proven, be worse is just the political machinations of enforcing the status quo where our corporate overlords get to dictate how technology shapes our lives.

I'm sorry but that's deeply undemocratic, todays generation should have a direct say in how new things effect their lives.

Failure to do this might literally condemn our species to extinction, and this only took less than 200 years to achieve. I'm sorry but they've proven their failure and it's time to make drastic changes.

Good news is many people agree with this across the electorate, so now you get to decide which people you want shaping society. The previous world order of US imperialism is going to end and I rather have the people decide what to do than those that want to continue running head first into extinction.

>The previous world order of US imperialism is going to end

I don't disagree.

Of course Chinese imperialism probably won't be much better.