Top Five Scary Technologies of 2008

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Patrick James
Writer / Former GOOD Managing Editor

December 11, 2008 • 10:13 pm PST
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How Stuff Works has a rundown of the Top Five Scary Technologies of 2008. They're not actually terrifying (and a few aren't technologies), but they make for some decent reading-and post-read pondering.

Via Digg.

Note: One question on a few of the Digg commenters' minds seems to be whether the Large Hadron Collider will produce an earth-swallowing black hole and obliterate existence as we know it. To that, we have to laugh, with casual defiance, and say: No, it won't destroy us-not if it keeps getting rick-rolled by liquid helium.

(Photo via NewScientist's gallery of LHC damage.)

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