The United States has an insatiable desire for technological advancement but is governed by founding documents that are completely unsuited for science and technology. This incongruity has manifested in recent disastrous actions by the US Supreme Court on guns, abortion, and climate. The decisions suggest that the battle is being won by the portion of America who—while lionizing the past and clinging to the infallibility of words written in the late 18th century—can’t put down their cell phones. Reactionary posts on social media wouldn’t get very far without a hundred years of technical advances—and massive amounts of power to recharge mobile device batteries and run the server farms that support the digital world. Because the disconnect between aspects of modern life and the framing of the country’s governance appears inconsequential to the conservative majority of justices in the US Supreme Court, it is vital that the scientific community advocate a political and societal landscape in which compassion and adaptability attend technological progress.

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法庭输了

美国对技术进步有着永不满足的愿望，但受制于完全不适合科学技术的创始文件。美国最高法院最近在枪支、堕胎和气候问题上采取的灾难性行动体现了这种不协调。这些决定表明，这场战斗正在由美国的那部分人赢得——他们崇尚过去并坚持 18 世纪后期所写文字的无误——不能放下手机。如果没有一百年的技术进步，以及为移动设备电池充电和运行支持数字世界的服务器场的大量电力，社交媒体上的反动帖子就不会走得太远。