Regulators treat these important products as though they pose uniquely worrisome risks, in spite of a long-standing consensus in the scientific community that the newer techniques are essentially an extension, or refinement, of more primitive ones.
When computers were the province of corporate programmers and youthful tinkerers he saw their possibilities for illuminating the lives of all of us, seizing on the first gropings by Xerox researchers who developed a primitive mouse and graphical interface, and perceiving in a flash there the chance for an epochal extension of the capabilities of everyone.