'Where would we be if nobody bothered to look beyond?' - Dr. Frankenstein         Is science necessary to our future? In today's society this is an unasked question lurking in the corners of cottages and winter getaways where food is cooked over a wood stove and the information highway is just a dirt road. In the novel Frankenstein we find that 'looking beyond' only leads to pain and suffering in the cases of Dr. Frankenstein …showed first 75 words of 648 total…

…showed last 75 words of 648 total…we thought they would, and, in fact, have brought us new problems we didn't foresee.' - Henry Ford II So what would the world be like if nobody bothered to look beyond? Just look at the simple and happy life of the cottagers and ask yourself if you would rather be there or in our confused and disoriented world of computers, guns, bombs, and test tube babies. I know where I would rather be.