“We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.” IfsNeedsChildrenTodaySpiritualHumanityStuffHoursResponsibilityWonderTechnologyEnvironmentModernEffectsBlessingOur ChildrenNervousCurseExpensesTaking ResponsibilityOur EnvironmentNervous SystemModern Technology Author:Marianne Williamson
“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.” NeedsChildrenEducationClassTechnologyDemocracyCollegeMembersDegreesLaborIndiaOur ChildrenAncientAvailableDistinctionContemptGraduatesElitesManualsCastesCollege EducationCondemningElitismSnobberyCollege DegreeCollege GraduatesManual LaborAncient IndiaClass DistinctionHigh Technology Book:Lump It Or Leave It Source: Lump It Or Leave It
“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.” ThinkingChildrenImportantNextDifficultTechnologyFailingEffectsIndustryOur ChildrenMedicalCuresProvidingOblivionBest Education Author:Sam Harris
“In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. ... But now with mobile technology, we can actually take our children outside into the natural world with their technology.” WorldYearsChildrenHas BeensLastsNaturalRoomsTechnologyOur ChildrenLockedMobileNatural WorldMobile Technology Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman
“We are never without our technology. It surrounds us. It permeates our lives. We have powerful computers in our pockets, and we have been - you know, we are training our children from the youngest age to use social media, so it's something that comes very naturally to us.” KnowsChildrenHas BeensUseAgeSocialPowerfulTechnologyOur LivesMediaComputerTrainingOur ChildrenSocial MediaPocketsSurround Author:Lance Ulanoff
“Every now and then, a technology comes along that is so profound, so powerful, so universal, that its impact will change everything. It will transform every institution in the world. It will create winners and losers, will change the way we do business, the way we teach our children, communicate and interact as individuals.” WorldWayChildrenIndividualPowerfulTeachTechnologyUniversalOur ChildrenInstitutionsImpactProfoundCommunicateWinnerLoserNow And ThenWinner And Loser Author:Lou Gerstner
“The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.” ThinkingMenWayLooksChildrenImportantTermTechnologyTomorrowOur ChildrenFellowsEverydayIdealismEveryday LifeFellow ManVetsNew RelationshipAutomation Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it's a social crime.” IfsChildrenSocialTechnologyCrimeImportanceOur Children Author:Narendra Modi
“When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.” WorldChildrenSportsTechnologyGreaterAreasOur ChildrenCompetition Author:Billie Jean King
“Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in a single day or two to more horror on our Internet Web pages than our great-grandfathers were exposed to in decades of living. We have not created modern minds for that modern world. Science and technology has just dumped it on us. And I think people yearn for it. I think you see it in what's popular. Why are people wanting to learn about meditation and talking about a purpose-driven life? It's because they know more is needed in the modern world.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindChildrenTechnologyMeditationModernInternetHorrorOur ChildrenScience And TechnologyDumped Author:Steven C. Hayes
“Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.” HumansChildrenSelfTechnologyGreaterTalentPossibilityOur ChildrenMissionsContentment Book:What Technology Wants Source: What Technology Wants
“I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.” IfsThinkingLifeMindKindChildrenArtRealFeelingsPastCultureTechnologyDrugTestsOur ChildrenWesternAtmosphereLackingEcosystemsRest Of Life Author:Terence McKenna
“To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children.” WorldNeedsMindLooksMayChildrenBodyCareTodayNextTechnologyTomorrowShapesAspectOur ChildrenHuman RightsMind And BodyProjectionScience And TechnologyMillenniumSupercomputers Author:Kofi Annan
“The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children’s needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious moments of opportunity to interact and converse with our children dissolve when we are occupied with distractions. Why not choose a time each day to disconnect from technology and reconnect with each other? Simply turn everything off. When you do this, your home may seem quiet at first; you may even feel at a loss as to what to do or say. Then, as you give full attention to your children, a conversation will begin, and you can enjoy listening to each other.” NeedsGivingFeelsFirstsMayChildrenMomentsHomeSeemsTurnsOpportunityEnjoyPrayerLossAnswersAttentionTechnologyListeningQuietConversationOur ChildrenYour ChildrenEach DayWhy NotDistractionOur PrayersConversesPrecious Moments Author:Rosemary M. Wixom