Last month, a group of protesters labeling themselves the "Seeds of Resistance" destroyed a crop of genetically engineered corn at the University of Maine. About 1,000 stalks were destroyed in the middle of the night. A few days later, a farm in Vermont was also victimized, where a 50-foot section of corn was destroyed.
These events can be viewed in the context of it once being possible to learn everything that one needed to know in the first 20 or so years of life, permitting one to spend the rest of one's time on earth falling comfortably behind and facing an early death. The rapid pace of technology has fundamentally changed this, however, requiring all of us to stay abreast of new technology developments.
