Is There an Open Discussion of Ideas in the Eye?

I could make a decent case for either our need to talk about this and to become technologically focused on containing it, or not. How small is the set of individuals out of which such ideas would arise? I don't really believe that we have an ability to hold it back. i do think that we could change the proportion of the time we spend worrying about the effects of what if we are successful. rather than simply trying to succeed and hope that we'll be able to contain things beautifully.