Foreword
I am privileged to pen this foreword because: a) the authors have excellent taste and b) a little-known aspect of my intellectual life is a significant amount of academic work in ethics, religion and philosophy. I am also privileged because: 1) I have known Daragh and Katherine a long time and 2) I have deep respect for their work. There is some incredibly valuable material in these forthcoming pages.
Humanity’s track record is sketchy when it comes to doing new things. Events and movements that create enormous benefits often suffer from unintended consequences. We sing the praises of the computer and the internet, yet accept a plethora of risks, inconveniences and inefficiencies. Enormous sums of money change hands, yet many societies ...
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