Technology has only helped us to see the monster within us more clearly

We live in a shockingly hostile world. The magical age of information and technological revolution has failed the test of humanness. If Neanderthal man butchered his neighbours, we could put that to his primitive times and limited world. That cannot be said of the present global generation.

Industrial technology and the revolutions in cybernation and aeronautics have made us one complex world. In the words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr., we have shrunk space and frozen time. You depart Tokyo on Saturday and get to Washington on Friday of the same week. Once in Washington, you could rightly tell them, “I left Tokyo tomorrow.” Yet the benefits of science and technology have not made us better human beings.