"This combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces”, said Carl Sagan in 1995. We’re living it with AI in 2026

Carl Sagan wrote this in The n-Haunted World: "We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements - transportation, communications, & all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key cratic institution of voting - profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.