I’ve always had a deep mistrust of technology. No. Wait. Rephrase that. I’ve always had a deep mistrust of human nature. When I was a kid, Daniel Callahan and Willard Gaylin started the Hastings Institute in the town where I grew up and went to school, Hastings-on-Hudson. I didn’t know too much about it then, but my social studies teacher mentioned it as a place that was either inventing or popularizing the field of bio ethics. It was the first time I’d heard of someone looking at the ethical issues of research in Science. Some rather unimaginative people have called me a “Luddite.”  I do have an aesthetic distaste for machines, but I recognize their value. Look around my house. I have many machines or products of machines: a coffee maker, heat, light, running water. I’m writing this essay on a laptop. I cherish the conversations I have on “WhatsApp” with my son who is in Mumbai and through my iPhone’s texting capacity with my daughter. I like charts. Here’s one that maybe s...