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Many Of The Genetically Modified Foods Will Be Safe, I'm Sure. Will Most Of Them Be Safe? Nobody Knows.

We Are Already Producing Enough Food To Feed The World. We Already Have Technology In Place That Allows Us To Produce More Than We Can Find A Market For.

What I'm Suggesting To You Is That This Could Be A Renaissance. We May Be On The Cusp Of A Future Which Could Provide A Tremendous Leap Forward For Humanity.

A Half Century From Now, Our Grandchildren Are Likely To Look Back At The Era Of Mass Employment In The Market With The Same Sense Of Utter Disbelief As We Look Upon Slavery And Serfdom In Former Times. The Very Idea That A Human Being's Worth Was Measured Almost Exclusively By His Or Her Productive Output Of Goods And Services And Material Wealth Will Seem Primitive, Even Barbaric, And Be Regarded As A Terrible Loss Of Human Value To Our Progeny Living In A Highly Automated World Where Much Of Life Is Lived On The Collaborative Commons.

The Revolution Here Is From Hierarchical To Lateral Power. That's The Power Shift. So Increasingly A Younger Generation That's Grown Up On The Internet And Now Increasingly Distributing Renewable Energies, They're Measuring Politics In Terms Of A Struggle Between Centralized, Hierarchical, Top-down And Closed And Proprietary, Versus Distributed, Open, Collaborative, Transparent. This Shift, From Hierarchical To Lateral Power, Is Going To Change The Way We Live, The Way We Educate Our Children, And The Way We Govern The World.