Re: 'In Our Own Image: Humanity's Quest for Divinity via Technology,' by Debashis Chowdhury by Debashis-C on Wed 16 May 2007 06:50 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link
For further details, check out the following url: www.iooi.org Wonderful as the opportunity that is currently being presented to humanity - to raise our material and spiritual presence into a new level of 'Divinity,' we must also be aware of the flip side of the coin. Technology is a force multiplier, and @ Moores' Law, a 1000x increase happens in only about 20-25 years. Unless we, humans, can come up with a unifying identity and purpose - this same technology can be used to destroy us, or perhaps worse - obsolete us as an aspirational presence here in this universe. The answer to this quandry, fittingly enough, can be found in the Ashrama system that was practiced in ancient India - and is still practiced in places like the Aurobindo Ashram. The changes are relatively minor, in order to apply it to society at large, and the principles of the (now enhanced) Mahashrama cycle can be applied to individual humans, human institutions, nations, or even our entire human civilization.
The thesis seems to suggest that “a unifying identity and purpose” can be achieved through the Mahashrama cycle; but basing it on ‘technology’ has no sufficient empirical support. In fact, in the overall social context, individual as well as collective, it plays relatively a very minor part. I really get stunned when, as an extension of the present argument, people talk of “Technology of Consciousness”. RYD
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