“Only if we counter these technologies with a greater power of attention to the specific, the qualitative, the local, the here and now, can we keep our balance. This is the general rule, first voiced, so far as I know, by Rudolf Steiner: To the extent we commit ourselves more fully to a machine-mediated existence, we must reach more determinedly toward the highest regions of our selves; otherwise, we will progressively lose our humanity.”

Computers, the Internet, and the Abdication of Consciousness
https://natureinstitute.org/txt/st/jung.htm
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“Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol - as embodied by TED talks - is a recipe for civilisational disaster" wrote TED critic Benjamin Bratton for the BBC. TED, he argued, makes solutions to difficult problems seem all-too-easy. "Given the stakes, making our best and brightest waste their time - and the audience's time - dancing like infomercial hosts is too high a price."”

TED isn't a cult. Here's what attendees actually believe
https://www.businessinsider.in/TED-isnt-a-cult-Heres-what-attendees-actually-believe/articleshow/50909731.cms
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“The ‘Internet of Things’ needs to be better managed from an ethical standpoint, says an article in European Business Review co-authored by Professor David De Cremer of Cambridge Judge.”

Internet (of Things) ethics
https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/internet-of-things-ethics/
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Ain't that the truth!