Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Limitations of our intelligence and need for character

Here's an interesting quote: "The world of the future will be an evermore demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves."

It comes from Norbert Wiener, in the 1964 book titled God and Golem Inc.

1964.

It's still true.

Christian men need also to be thinking about limits of our character, individual and social. We live under a curse of superficiality (see Richard Foster's book, Celebration of Discipline) -- and the world needs us to be deep people. The great need is for us to lead God-besotted lives.

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