and by weird I don't mean self-serving, though IMO it is often that, too, but just that "they don't agree with me; they must not know any better" is a fundamentally unpromising way to try to understand anyone's behaviour, especially coming from scholars of human societies
Ted McCormick
I think it's weird to assume that people focused on the very large and real problems a technology causes them are only focusing on those problems because they can't imagine other applications, rather than because the problems are large and real and other applications are irrelevant to fixing them
