The Human RenaissanceFor generations, humanity treated reason, language, art, and invention as provinces that marked us off from the rest of nature. Machines now cross into those territories with startling force. They do not need to possess a human soul to destabilize our old account of human exception.
The answer is neither panic nor worship. It is to recover the domains no benchmark can settle for us: what deserves love, what power is for, what a person owes another, and what kind of life is worthy of the astonishing tools now in our hands.
Technology does not abolish the need for virtue. It multiplies the consequences of its absence.
Martin Robert Genter Jr.
Writer, educator & civic leader. The Eternal Renaissance · The Human Renaissance.
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