Fire cooks, but it also burns. The Asilomar Conference on recombinant DNA (1975) shows how innovators can pause to build norms before heat spreads too far. Similarly, debates around CRISPR gene editing underscore that feeding an idea includes feeding foresight. Camus, in The Rebel (1951), warned that creation divorced from responsibility risks dehumanization; by extension, creators must consider dignity as part of design. Thus we complete the arc: shelter the spark, feed it with time and tests, build a hearth in culture and markets, and ring it with ethical stone. Only then does a fresh idea become a fire worth gathering around. [...]
