Humans and Improvised Weapons: A Response to a Writing Prompt
25 December 2021
Humans and safety is a long history, because as they say if you make
something idiot proof they will invent a better idiot. Just about any
piece of industrial equipment can become a weapon when misused. Most
other species in the galaxy weren’t that creative to misuse or find the
failure points in their technology. We took a different path than humans
did. Finding solutions that were safer from the get go, that a culture
of safety was not needed.