WHY SHOULD I CARE?
Frankenstein is basically responsible for the genre of science fiction, has seared our collective cultural imagination, has inspired countless monster movies (Tim Burton's among them), Halloween costumes, parodies, TV characters (think shows like Scooby Doo and The Munsters), and achieved all-around legend status.
So, obviously plenty of people have cared about it. Why should you?
Do you care about finding out the long-term effects of holding radiation-emitting devices near your ear for long periods of time? (None so far.)
Do you care about whether injecting human genes into goats might have unintended consequences? (Either way, pretty cool.)
Do you care if finding the Higgs Boson particle is going to create a black hole? (Uh, no.)
Do you care if Facebook learns a little more than you wanted it to know about your TV-viewing habits? (Because it knows all.)
Our point is that, just as much as Mary Shelley (and maybe even more), we live in an era of breathtaking scientific advances. And they are awesome. We love the Internet. We love not getting smallpox. We really love endless marathons of I Love the 80s. But there's a nagging little voice in the back of our head that asks, "What is all this doing to us? When is the other shoe going to drop?"
And we bet that you feel the same way