Emerging technologies are said to be paradoxical. They hold both promise and peril for the societies that develop and use them. The paradox usually comes not from the technology itself, but how society decides to use it, or how it could potentially be used.
One example of such a conscience-based dilemma can be found in the work and life of nuclear scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, as portrayed in the documentary, “The Day After Trinity.” Upon shepherding the Manhattan Project to a successful, operational atomic bomb, he exclaimed, “I have become death.” Witnessing the destructive power of his creation at the New Mexico tests, Oppenheimer went from being the “father of the A-bomb” to one of the most vocal opponents of nuclear power.