>>>Technology for the sake of technology is like opening Pandora’s box. The child like fever of an inventor or technologist is a very selfish thing indeed! Who knows what lies in store for humanity because someone developed or invented “something”? It may have been a good idea at the time but who knows what impact anything will have on humanity! :)
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>>if only more inventors could be like Alfred Nobel
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>Yes! He was a dynamite of a man! What a bang of a man was he! :)

And spiteful. I've heard the story that the only reason why mathematics was excluded from the list of prizes was that certain mr Stiltjes snatched his girlfriend... integrally.