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She added: "Ancient engineers had a role in society and often an ambivalent relationship
with political power. The technology they boasted of may now be obsolete, but
their anxieties, their curiosity, and their pride in their knowledge are not - perhaps the people behind the machine have not changed
that much."

Nice post-modern journalism.
As I started the article, all I could think was "at least these technologists
didn't have a Nobel Peace Prize there to lure them into being useful idiots.".

But I guess the writer thinks otherwise.

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I guess what I really was saying was that the writer just couldn't praise the makers
of these engines of war...
without also trying to make them sound like leftist moral paragons along the lines of
Oppenheimer and Linus Pauling, let alone The Rosenburgs and Gus Hall.