I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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.
I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.
I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.