
"In our own times, technology repeats the cycle of Adam and Eve, Prometheus, Icarus, and Pandora. We master the atom and nearly obliterate ourselves. We learn the secrets of life only to develop techniques to destroy the unborn and the aging. We tame the Great Plains with agriculture and cause dust bowls, harvest rain forests and create floods, harness internal combustion and melt the icecaps. We link the world on an Internet only to find that the most downloaded items are pornographic. Every advance introduces yet another fall."
It seems that for every step forward we take, humanity takes two or three steps back. Instead of coming together and multiplying peace, love, and fellowship, we use every advancement to try to consolidate our power, to increase our pleasure, to maximize our profit. We seem to naturally twist and distort everything that comes our way.