Science, Morality, and Progress

Why our technology outruns our humanity

The Apotheosis of War, by Vasily Vereshchagin (wikimedia commons)

Martin Luther King, Jr. famously observed that “our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

He and other luminaries, like Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan, have noted the alarming fact that our technology continues to advance beyond our capacity to wield it…