ecoTrain QOTW #9.4: Can spirituality and technology coexist?

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Can there be coexistence between man and technology? Surely, today's civilization is completely different from the civilization of 2500 years ago. As the centuries go by, one society marks its difference in relation to the other. When the first man landed on the moon, everything was wonderful and surprising, since man was marking a new step in history and was driven to discover things more hidden than he could imagine. In the same way, when the first telephone was created to communicate at a distance with other people, it implied that the new society was being introduced to a new unknown world of technology.



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As times progressed, man found himself in a new walkway of life with a projection towards technology. It is impressive how the structures of the buildings of the largest and most beautiful cities in the world, can look a brilliant beauty product of technological development that has given life to the civilization of the present. We cannot cover with a finger, the advances that medicine has had as a result of technological advances. The development of business or industrial world has increased in large scales, motivated by the operability of technological progress. The fact that global communication allows immediate responses to industrial process requirements is something amazing and of high impact with today's technology.

Really, what has been achieved with technology is something so amazing that it is impossible to imagine that the technology of the coming century will be so extraordinary that we will surely not be able to see it and enjoy it. Technology has allowed us a considerable degree of personal, family, social and industrial development and has certainly provided us with a high degree of comfort. However, not knowing how to manage this technological resource could lead us to the precipice and chaos. The misuse of technology, as in the case of the Internet, in which disturbing factors of the emotional order, are given the task of promoting anti-values that promote violence, sex and child exploitation, could generate certain rejections towards technology due to its misuse. In any case, technology has many positive and favorable factors for man. Technology can lead us to the fulfillment of the dream of exploring other latitudes outside the terrestrial globe and entering the world of other planets. We could dream of making a trip to another galaxy and other planets as well as flying from one country to another country, and all this may be possible, with the technological development of the coming centuries.



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With the achievement of these dreams, the coming technology will be so amazing that man's spirituality would transcend in great scale and magnitude. We cannot doubt that there are societies that are highly developed because of their technological strength. Technology allows man to put into practice his longings and dreams. What can be imagined today can be achieved with technology. Man has to learn to live with technology, because it is a reality that covers him, surrounds him and is like his oxygen that comes from nature. The coming generations will have a wide capacity and facility to enter into the depths of technology and reach beyond what the current man has not been able to reach. Man faces continuous challenges and technology is one of them, for this reason, man must learn to coexist with technology.

In answering this week's question, there remains the great concern of what the future will be with technological advances in different areas of life and the great demand for the preparation and training of man to be able to carry out such a demanding task with technology. The spiritual and the technological are aspects that will have to go hand in hand, one with the other. So far, we can look at the amazing achievements of man with the use of technology, what we will not be able to imagine, the extraordinary and super amazing, of what will be tomorrow, the technology for the new man of the future.