February 2011
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Einstein once wrote that our technology has outevolved our humanity, but he didn’t seem much concerned about it. In his subsequent writings he appeared to be convinced that our humanity will catch up with technology. Einstein was wrong, it didn’t! We are now witnessing how science – the mother of technology – is disassembling society…
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Princeton University Press: Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google…
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To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. (Czeslaw Milosz, Road-side Dog, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, p. 60)
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Severe, austere and deeply moving, Xavier Beauvois’s film about monks threatened by fundamentalists is one of the year’s highlights. “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.” The speaker is Luc, an elderly Catholic monk played by 79-year-old Michael Lonsdale, quoting a pensée of Pascal. He…
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