A new report from the United Nations University's Millennium Project warns that many people still do not appreciate how fast science and technology (S&T) will change over the next 25 years, and given this rapid development along several different fronts, the possibility of technology growing beyond human control must now be taken seriously.
Several nations are pressing for creation of a U.N. agency to monitor biological weapons and missiles, but in the face of U.S. opposition such a body might never be anything more than a notion.