I think about the potential of technology often. Whether it be artificial intelligence or blockchain, we are facing new found possibilities.
The efficiency is stunning, and the certainty is reassuring — and we have the possibility to try to think with the logic of technology — in a way — we can become reductionists: a belief that each piece serves a specific utility and no more — that the sum of parts is not greater than the whole.
Logical algorithms must assume a complete logical breakdown of systems, while humans can account for the subtle. If a mechanic takes a part a car to each of its pieces, and puts it back together, then it will likely drive again. If the best surgeon takes an animal and tries to dissect it, and put it back together, then obviously it will not live. There is a difference.
Human beings that break problems into their individual pieces and logically pieces them together — this is what computers do, not humans.
To not lose ourselves to technology, we must practice and honor that which is human: wisdom, love and compassion.