Excellent piece, Wolfe. Are you familiar with Rudolf Steiner, an archivist for Goethe's work? He called this force, Ahriman, which seeks to consume human egos into a mechanistic universe, to become cogs of technology, like the Borg. Michael Creighton's Jurassic Park was basically looking at the idea that just because we can, doesn't mean we should. Steiner said we need two steps of morality for every step of knowledge.