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The career of telescope namesake James Web is in the past. Anything done today is not going to change that past, rewrite history, or correct any wrongs made during a time when society was more closed and intolerant. Reviewing it now is a waste of time when efforts could be used to do future...

We should be looking, of course, but the approach of isolating "stages" of a bio or technosphere is myopically human-centric. It assumes a path like humans that will "poison" a biosphere, then learn from mistakes, and attempt correction. This approach seems to ignore the potential of a...