And so we have on the male side what one of my colleagues likes to call the omega males popping up, who are the males who are romantically challenged losers who can't find a job.

Instead, they must conclude that they personally failed, and that no amount of effort can save them.

In the new, reality show version of that dream, countless Americans came to expect to be able to live, look, dance, and party like celebrities, or else feel themselves to be failures.

And here's this really sophisticated technology coming down the road, all these associated social, moral, ethical questions, and we scientists are just lousy at explaining to the public just exactly what it is we're doing in those labs.