He also suggested that the potential threats posed by contact with alien intelligence should discourageus from actively sending out messages to the cosmos.
Why should we discount or discourage this type of learning simply because some of us are not familiar enough with the technology to fully appreciate it?
Sure, but not overnight and not without the kind of unified, industry-wide, cooperative effort that the economic nightmares from which both Europe and the US are still trying to awaken would tend to discourage.