This. All of this. We're experimenting with technology that itself is experimental in nature. Hell, even the internet itself it a huge social experiment for the whole of humanity, being able to contact people around the world in milliseconds is not what our biology had in mind.

We are on the forefront of the forefront here. We are beyond the bleeding edge. We are those pioneers of new technologies that may, or may not work out. Either way, even if SMTs fail, it's a hell of a run, isn't it?