Modern technology can save lives, cure disease, increase productivity, connect people globally . . . .
Technology is the means by which human beings exercise dominion.
In presenting global perspectives, the report recounts both promise and danger. New ideas cannot be kept out and this has served to promote and extend democratic ideals. Tyrants and dictators cannot carry out their totalitarian rule in secret. The bishops conclude their report with a theological and a practical challenge. Our dominion over the earth has been at its best a reverent stewardship . . .