\nHumanity has entered a new era in which our technical prowess has brought us to a crossroads. We are the beneficiaries of two centuries of enormous waves of change: steam engines, railways, the telegraph, electricity, automobiles, aeroplanes, chemical industries, modern medicine, information technology and, more recently, the digital revolution, robotics, biotechnologies and nanotechnologies. It is right to rejoice in these advances and to be excited by the immense possibilities which they continue to open up before us, for \u201cscience and technology are wonderful products of a God-given human creativity\u201d.[81]<\/a>\u00a0The modification of nature for useful purposes has distinguished the human family from the beginning; technology itself \u201cexpresses the inner tension that impels man gradually to overcome material limitations\u201d.[82]<\/a>\u00a0Technology has remedied countless evils which used to harm and limit human beings. How can we not feel gratitude and appreciation for this progress, especially in the fields of medicine, engineering and communications? How could we not acknowledge the work of many scientists and engineers who have provided alternatives to make development sustainable?<\/p>\n
103. Technoscience, when well directed, can produce important means of improving the quality of human life, from useful domestic appliances to great transportation systems, bridges, buildings and public spaces. It can also produce art and enable men and women immersed in the material world to \u201cleap\u201d into the world of beauty. Who can deny the beauty of an aircraft or a skyscraper? Valuable works of art and music now make use of new technologies. So, in the beauty intended by the one who uses new technical instruments and in the contemplation of such beauty, a quantum leap occurs, resulting in a fulfilment which is uniquely human.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It turns out Francis is not a Luddite calling the first world back to mud huts for the sake of equally distributing misery.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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