Is technology making us more or less human?

Sr. Damien Marie Savino FSE recently asked this question at a “Town and Gown” conference at school.

Of course, the question was answered before the conference even started. Yes, computers might, and probably will rule the world at some point (soon) to who knows what end. But that only underlines our humanity.

Sister Dr. Damien who is a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist, the religious order that works in our school –although Sr. Damien is currently working at the U of Notre Dame in Indiana, had a well laid out presentation going over some key and necessary points such as Who we are not and Who we are. She made some cool references to paintings like The Song of the Lark by French naturalist artist Jules Breton (1884), as well as to Heidegger, CS Lewis, Pope Francis, Gaudi, etc.

To be frank, Chat GPT was launched (carelessly, I might add) in November of 2022 and I am already sick and tired of it, and it has only started, and it is only going to get more and more conspicuous. Oh well.

This is the video on Gaudí that Prof. Savino shared with us: