Tom, I don't see where anyone is denying the human element?
The faster crunchers will accelerate human activity and expand human knowledge expotentially, that's what i get from his point.
A Snowball rolling down a hill gathering speed and snowboarders until a solar flare permeates the atmosphere and microwaves us all, as we gleefully compute it’s trajectory and the meltodwn of the magnetic field.
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