> We're playing with a fire that catches and spreads so fast, by the time anyone realizes the forest is catching and starting to react, the entire forest is already well on the way to joining in the blaze.
I suspect this has been said in one form or another since the discovery of fire itself.
Even if it is as perennial as contempt for descendents, when the fact is that signals are getting so fast they trigger downstream responses faster than a neuron can finish it's refractory period renders it not exactly a trivially dismissable observation.