Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
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.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.