World Goodwill Newsletter 2023 #3
Human Responsibility in an Age of Transformation:
Forging a Moral Direction in Science and Technology
It is difficult to exaggerate the impact that science and tech-nology have played, and are playing, in human development. As our creative power has surged new discoveries have brought great gifts - yet there have also been enormous downsides. Moves to a machine-based world are impacting our relationship with the worlds of spirit and soul, and this is having increasingly negative effects on the qualities of goodwill and integrity in all areas of relationship, including our relations with the other kingdoms of nature.
In November 2023 World Goodwill’s annual seminar took a deep dive into this theme, exploring the role that wisdom and morality have to play in science and technology, and essentially asking the question: What is Human Responsibility in an Age of Transformation?
This issue of the Newsletter includes brief edited extracts from presentations delivered during the three events broadcast from Geneva, London and New York. To explore the issue further there are videos, including illuminating panel discussions, and some full transcripts at www.worldgoodwill.org.
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Education is Paramount
In this digital era, it is all too easy for our eyes to be drawn downward and locked in a state of ‘fascination’ with the products of technology. Whether it is the virtual world of computer-generated realities or the more widespread addiction to smartphones, electronic messaging and social media, a balance needs to be restored.
Read MoreUniting Masculine Science with Feminine Nature
Since the dawn of the industrial age, the onward march of science and technology has brought great gifts to humanity but further undermined the instinctive spiritual relationship that human beings once had with the land, fauna, and flora.
Read MoreNo Scientific Breakthroughs in the Last Hundred Years
Science and technology are not the same thing. ... Sometimes scientific breakthroughs give rise to technological progress and sometimes progress in technology helps science to advance.
Read MoreWhat it Means to Be Really Human
As one world, our pressing need is for a renaissance and a restitution of what it means to be really human. This has been caused by the global monopoly of scientific materialism, where knowledge is dominated by secular values.
Read MoreDistinguishing the Real from the Unreal
Fear of the new leads to petrification. Keeping everything the same means freezing everything. The seed of the spirit needs freedom to express itself and begins to rebel when it is imprisoned by artificial rules created out of fear and designed to keep everything as usual.
Read MoreThe Power of Thinking for Oneself
We are all co-responsible at one level or another for everything that happens, because it is the consciousness of all of us that generates the worlds in which we live.
Read MoreMajor Impacts from Science and Technology
The world of the virtual and of artificial intelligence is magical. It includes the internet, social networks, generative AI, chatbots and Chat GPT. But the virtual world, which is invading our daily lives, is threatening many jobs by rendering certain professions redundant.
Read MoreSolar Geomagnetic Activity and Emotional Intelligence
In a number of articles about the rapid electromagnetic and geomagnetic changes happening on this planet, I discuss the strong similarities between planetary chaos, human emotion, and behavior as it relates to different solar cycles.
Read MoreTechnology Supporting Social Cohesion
Code is not neutral. The design of platforms determines their impact on society. It is shaping our human behaviour, showing us some content and not others, and making decisions that steer humanity in one direction or the other.
Read MoreIndividual Responsibility in the Age of AI
In 1999...Price Waterhouse was getting a lot of pressure from clients to forecast what effect the internet and the web would have. Our reply...is that the internet would make you more of who you are. That is, if you’re a hard worker, it will allow you to do more work. If you’re lazy, it will help you find ways to be even lazier.
Read MoreAI as a Convergence of Technologies
While AI can be scary, the reality is that it has been developed by us. We create models that drive AI, and these models are not something outside of us. They do not control the world.
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