...leaves me incredibly mixed feelings. I don't like the idea of questioning, questioning, questioning, without any clear answers, but that's all there is in this case, or rather, all I see.

This topic has been brewing in my head for some time, and I think it was the open-ended nature of it that kept me from mentioning it. It is easy to misconstrue (or misinterpret--both failures of this writer's limited abilities, and not of the reader) the ideas as a rant against software, or technology, or nuclear weapons, or whatever; when the point is most decidedly not whether these things are good or bad but whether we have some ideas and some ground covered before we turn them into reality or we're always left scrambling after the fact.

Even as it is, in some senses, personal, limited, and introspective, its scope and scale are still daunting.

The good news is: that's never stopped us before. :-)