“To use them for the wrong aims and reasons,” Deanna nods, halfway through the thought herself before she’d ever asked him. But her job wasn’t always about pointing out the obvious. It was about presenting the obvious that others might be able to find their own thoughts through it as well.

“Fear of and a longing to have an equal footing, as well as understanding of, such new things one does not has often led to its own missteps.” Because while there was much in these people they did recognize, there as still more there they couldn’t fully explain. Or that was further technologically advanced than them.