The "politically correct" bridge at the Darién Gap ( wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap ) should be 110 km long over a spectacular and wild forest...

Perhaps you should understand that normally, we plan the future based on what we lived in the past. And that we see the present through the filter of our conditioning...
The main benefit of communication and Internet is that we could expand our vision of the present by adding others point of view.
The idea is that the bigger the number of people that we listen today, the closer we could be to know what this year would 'impartially' look like in 20 years.

People with heavy protrusions could use a gyroscope inside a belt...

...They will suddenly become very interested and possessive, again, on this piece of rock.

Define radical...

I think that both words 'author' & 'authority' are related...
Perhaps, initially. Someone that created something, was the only authority that could say if others used his invention correctly, or not. Or was responsible of any wrong use of his creation.
Then, when she sold her creation to other, the authority should extend to the new owner. But, in reality, depending on the complexity of the creation, the last word should belong to the creator.
Today, we might have missed the original point. And anyone that owns anything pretends to be as the creator. Extending eternally the rights of something that they might have bought but that they might not understand.
But who cares? It is now, only money...

Studies of pot today should consider possible side effects of consuming transgenic marihuana. Who knows for sure that there is no side effects with it, compared with the pure and old herb?

Besides, today, use and consumption are not well differentiated words.

Antient cultures used to consider drugs as gods. They might have had less technical knowledge about science, but that should not diminish their knowledge. They used it on special occasions.

If today we use or consume drugs in a similar way as we 'use our actual gods' to get something back from them.
If we consume drugs to patch other existential problems that we need to solve. Then the god part of the drugs might act against us...

Like using guns. Guns are not good or evil. But they might become so, with our use.
The myth of drugs that started with inquisition should finally end.
Drugs have been part of the human existence since the begining of time. And forbidden or not they shall allways be part of us.

:) I enjoy the way that 'anonymous reader' writes this review.

Following Ray Bradbury's great story, there should be people that would remember by hard what the forbidden site was about... :>

To get out to space we first need to improve our human culture!

With our actual population rate, in 1000 years we would have exhausted the feeding resources of all our reachable universe...

There is no news that information is the enemy of any dictator on the earth. Information is the enemy of fear. And fear is power.

Big brother has no other ideology. And violence is the mother of ignorance and fear.

Shall we some day finally learn the lesson for good?
Being well informed, we could let them fight until exhaustion, without narrowing our future.
Should we return to that hell? Should we keep on loosing?

Anecdote:

I used to work as a qualified data entry guy that had to collect all the household analyzed rating data and parse it into some excel sheets. After lots of graphs resulting from the data filtered by several customers targets, the result was one +200 hundred pages printed book personalized for each customer. Totaling near a thousand books every month.

The number of different results was so high that the algorithms should be heavily watched constantly. And I was never as sure as to not expect to find any possible mistake in any output. But from outside, my boss would only see a funny guy that was mostly always sitting down and doing nothing. ..
The idea that such a heavy and responsible job would look as doing nothing made me laugh a lot.

So much so, that I created a very nice button at the starting page of the Excel sheet that would do all the job without any hesitation. Without human checking any results before hand! But it was so tempting! It was my boss's point of view of my job...

As I expected, later I got fired. But then, I found out that that nice button caused them the lost of a lot of customers, until they decided to start doing all my work again from scratch...

And finally new that mine was really a busy job...