Fratelli Tutti

A further reflection on immigration from Pope Francis’ encyclical, #44:

We forget that “there is no worse form of alienation than to feel uprooted, belonging to no one. A land will be fruitful, and its people bear fruit and give birth to the future, only to the extent that it can foster a sense of belonging among its members, create bonds of integration between generations and different communities, and avoid all that makes us insensitive to others and leads to further alienation”.

Thoughts technology

In 1994 Carl Sagan, the brilliant astronomer and science communicator, offered comments which we might apply today to the development of artificial intelligence:

Many of the dangers we face arise indeed from science and technology–but, more fundamentally, because we have become powerful without becoming commensurately wise. The world altering powers that technology has delivered into our hands now require a degree of consideration and foresight that has never before been asked of us.