Miraculous technologies may well be slowly damaging our compassion and ability to relate in exact proportion to our advancing connectedness to universal knowledge. Furthermore, while we can choose to drink from an open fire hose of cyber knowledge, many folks I know use technology only to limit their connections to those media that confirm their ongoing prejudices. Each of us can create our personal media walled garden that surrounds us with comforting, confirming information, and utterly shuts out anything that conflicts with our world view.
Key Takeaways:
- I think American society itself is increasingly weak in this human quality. The dearth of empathy seems increasingly to be part and parcel of our rush, rush societal and business culture.
- Conservatives follow conservative channels, internet sites, and movies. Liberals do the same.
- Individuals can select from a vast cyber-sea of media and utterly saturate their information space exclusively with information sources that reinforce existing world views.
“I saw a list of qualities entrepreneurs lack last week. Right at the top was empathy. Entrepreneurs are busy people and it is easy to see how empathy might be treated as a non-priority.”
