The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it our tools are evolving faster than the human body so why obey the limits of mere nature?
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power either for good or for destruction.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.
Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.
I see technology as being an extension of the human body.
The human condition today is better than it's ever been and technology is one of the reasons for that.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics atomic structure or biological inheritance.
With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.
The reason is that till date in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.
Technology is teaching us to be human again.
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb because it is through us - through our brains our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The newest computer can merely compound at speed the oldest problem in the relations between human beings and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem of what to say and how to say it.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life contemplation meditation.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
My mother a teacher encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living and my father a Mississippi physician did two things. First he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else and he never pressured me to become a doctor.
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven which was the main teaching of Jesus is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I've ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple - she had purple lipstick on. I don't think there will ever be anything cooler than kissing her... until I marry her maybe!