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“Ye shall be as gods,” Juli said, watching as the class settled down into their chairs. Leaning against the front of her desk, she let her eyes pass over each of them before continuing on. “It is this conceit that this class has been built around—that, as people, we can even dream of passing by ‘gods’ boundaries. And then,” she smirked, but very faintly, “we, as a race have the nerve to go ahead and do so. To shatter those boundaries and define them more to our liking.”

“Next week is your final exam,” surely they knew that much at least, “and we shall see how much of the thinking you each have retained over the course of the semester. Today though, let us talk about that conceit.”

“’I think, therefore I am.’ Simple, no? Or perhaps you’d prefer ‘Fortune favours the brave’.” Juli smiled a bit. “Both are, in reality, true to some extent. If we did not have the brave few, the innovators that drove our sciences past their and our previous knowledge then new discoveries would never be made. In the quiet, but persistent, belief that they know what they do, why they do it, and that they are in the right… change happens. And the world is born again anew.”

“For today, split into pairs and discuss three ways you think that advances in science of made things better, and three ways that you think it has made things worse.”

[~~Wait for the~~ OCD is up! Hurrah!]

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Loud as you can!

Adam Park

Bridge Carson

Sky Tate

Z Delgado

Anemone

Yakushi Kabuto

Jen Scotts

Peter Parker

Anathema Device

Zack Addy

Chat, sleep, pass notes, listen. You know the drill.

Adam listened to the lecture and took notes, jotting down things he thought were important.

Look at him, being all studious!

There wasn't much to take notes on, but Anemone was listening intently.

That you feel advances in science have...

As you do.

"Science has made lots of things better," Anemone said. "We can harness the Trapar waves to power everything from motorbikes to airships, which is so much better for the environment than burning fossil fuels. We also have LFOs, and scientific advances with Trapar and the Compac Drives made the entire sport of Lifting possible."

"There's also, you know, me. Which I guess makes four, but still, those are the big ones."

And anyone who thought that she was a bad thing, well, could stuff it.

As you will.

Anemone had to think for a bit before she could find her words. "It made the genocide of an entire species not only possible, but easy," she said finally. "One man used it to start a needless war, one that almost culminated in the death of the entire world and everything on it, all for the sake of his pride." That wasn't three, but it was enough. For Anemone, at least.

What do you think has been improved by science? Ruined? Why?

Those were really good questions and Adam took some time to think about that. He wasn't completely sure how to go about answering those questions.

If he's around.

Oh, he's around. Just don't expect a lot out of him, as he's absorbed in notes ~~and the mun is completely braindead~~.

Who is around, yes.

Why am I so tiiiiired this week?

I don't know either! But I completely, absolutely agree with you.

Ye Shall Be As Gods? – Class 14, Period 3

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