Has Technology Made us Better or Worse?

The record of technology as science-relieving human beings of specific burdens and diseases-is splendid. The record of technology as a metaphor for being human is disastrous. When technology is used to win wars, it becomes the atomic bomb. When it is used to control human sexuality, it becomes the destruction of millions of unborn lives and, in contraception, all too often fosters the disengagement of fruitfulness from love. The biggest cultural mistake we can indulge in is to yearn for technological “solutions” to our deepest cultural “problems.”