Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.
There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.
My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.
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