Beyond the Digital Abyss: Renewing Our Humanity, Empathy and Judgment

Deference to technology over humanity, empathy, and judgment is its own banality of evil. Don Olcott, Jr. If you haven’t heard the news on the BBC or CNN, civilisation as we know seems to be coming to an end.  No, it’s not due to the pandemic Covid-19, it’s not our dependency on World Cup football or our personal quest to find our true selves amidst the uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity of modern society. It is none of these. The latest Ship of Doom is reporting that digital technology and artificial intelligence are covertly taking over the world . . .