“It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity”
2007-09-07 16:46:45 · 16 answers · asked by jasfuehajdhfjka 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Humanity is kindness to a large degree and I guess he feels humanity is unkind and technology has surpassed humanity........He's shocked at it...........CAT
2007-09-07 16:58:45 · answer #1 · answered by Sandi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He meant that the technological age is financed far greater than our debt to humanity. Example: America's poor are poorly fed and housed, and politicians complain about the cost of housing and feeding the poor yet they think nothing of pouring trillions of dollars into Iraq and Afghanistan in order to bring stability to those countries, why? when just one weeks money that they spend on the war over there, would benefit our homeless people no end! not to mention the cutback on crime! It's crazy!
2007-09-08 00:07:09 · answer #2 · answered by wheeliebin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, to me this quote means that maybe we're getting a little too carried away with technology and that it isn't everything.
Maybe Einstein means that although technology is great and incredibly useful and amazing, we shouldn't go too far and depend heavily on it. That we should still enjoy the simple life-after all, we're animals.
2007-09-07 23:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learning is not fast enough, humans are not advanced enough to keep up! The human mind can not absorb the knowledge at the rate required to stay on top.
2007-09-07 23:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by alterdragon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The power we have through technology is no longer kept in check by our human values (atom bomb).
2007-09-07 23:54:00 · answer #5 · answered by whuz007 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he understood that the technology had to be reined/controlled and not be allowed to proliferate
and be used indiscriminately to be mis-used and for destruction of each other.
2007-09-07 23:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by mahen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our technology is growing faster than we find answers for all of the moral dilemmas that it creates.
2007-09-07 23:52:54 · answer #7 · answered by Boris Bumpley 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technology is better than society
2007-09-07 23:54:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We've grown in our knowledge/use of technology faster than our empathy for others has.
2007-09-07 23:55:49 · answer #9 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way we just press a button or drop a bomb to kill millions of people. I think he was referring to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2007-09-07 23:53:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋