While we may appear ‘advanced and dominant’ on Earth, Humans are profoundly psychologically and socially delicate.

Technology is, in some ways, a method of projecting this innate insecurity… into an »abstract domain of »seeming mastery. But what is really going on is a form of lethal hubris.

Yet there is an opportunity to explore these aspects of our humanity, and develop cultures and societies that are humane, intelligent and creative. If we fail to do this, our technologies will destroy us and most of life on Earth. Their ‘power’ is lethal, until and unless we forge collectives capable of both intelligent application and inhibition…