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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

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Freeman Dyson
Age: 96 †
Born: 1923
Born: December 15
Died: 2020
Died: February 28
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Theoretical Physicist
Crowthorne
Berkshire
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