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Navigating Our Brave New World, by Eric Sammons – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine, April 1, 2025

Eric Sammons is the editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine.

New technologies are rapidly transforming society. Are these radical changes good or bad for our emotional and spiritual lives?

Are you a tech optimist or pessimist? Do you think our advancing technology—in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, and space technology—will make our world better or worse? And do you think the new technologies of the last two centuries have more helped or harmed the advancement of mankind?

I’ve found that the more traditional a Catholic is, the more likely he is to answer those questions pessimistically. He’s more inclined to be skeptical of the claims coming from tech optimists that we can make a better world through man-made technology. We see this skepticism particularly in the “back to the land” movement that has grown popular among a certain segment of Catholics in recent years. …

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