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...optimist about technology you also have to be a pessimist, because in believing in its power to yield incredible benefits, you also have to acknowledge the potential for enormous damage. Fiction can be a kind of Gedankenexperiment where you try to chart a course between the damage and the benefit. The Bitchun Society isn’t as utopian as it seems; it has some pretty dramatic failings. It’s a society in which minority viewpoints have no protection, in which your ability to be heard is directly correlated to your popularity. If all your society protects...
...Shahar is well aware of the fact that the course is known for being easy. But he’s an optimist, and he interprets that reputation to mean that his students are just having fun learning...
...that would hinder the Crimson attack—especially the already ineffective man-advantage unit—and prevent Harvard from finding the back of the net for the remainder of regulation. “That was the frustrating part,” Donato said. “The optimist in me thinks that we can do so much better if we put those chances away.” The Crimson received perhaps its best opportunity to extend its lead at the midway point of the second period, when Brown junior center Antonin Roux was ejected from the game...
...acrobatic saves quashed Harvard’s run during a third-period 5-on-3, and the Crimson couldn’t muster anything with a second period five-minute hitting-from-behind major called on Brown’s Antonin Roux. “The optimist in me feels we can do so much better if we put those chances,” Donato said. “Our power play had the chance to make it a two-goal game so many times.” But Harvard’s penalty kill held the Bears to four...
...REILLY: I guess I'm an optimist too because, on the one hand, many of the technological innovations of the past few decades now are in the payoff stage. On the other, even a serious disruption-- global warming, a pandemic--could serve as a wake-up call, harnessing our ingenuity to make things better...