At our request, he selected a number of thoughtful quotes concerning the relation between technology and spirituality. There is no answer outside the human being. There is no capability of the computer that can't be made to look good in one light and bad in another. At the end of the twentieth century it scarcely seems possible to stand in this light and this darkness without worrying deeply about the terms of our inner pact with the computer. This doesn't mean we stop existing as individuals, but it could mean we become more fully aware of every other living being, much in the way a coral reef's individual organisms respond to one another as if they were part of the same, single body.
Technology is part of nature.
It's an extension of human consciousness. Ironically the portals that technology open to us are generally portals that we could open without technology, if we knew how. I think that we are fully capable as human beings of having a global brain and of communicating with each other as parts of a single great organism. But either we really haven't developed those skills, or else we've lost the ability to use them. Well, being one part of an eight-billion part organism is much harder to come to grips with.