Posted: May 03, 2018 4:41 am
surreptitious57 wrote:The advancement of technology will inevitably raise moral questions about its use. I presume it is why humanists objected
to your ideas for making the world a more rational place. Although we dont have to look to the future to see the negative consequences of interacting with machines as this is happening now. The internet has completely transformed the way we communicate but it is not exclusively a force for good.
I suppose the fact that epics like the Odyssey or the Manas or the Mahabharata no longer crop up in our time might be a cost of shedding the oral tradition in favor of writing. But do you want to give literacy up?