I have spent much of this week at a trade show with about 1,000 exhibits and maybe 50,000 of my closest friends all about industrial automation, robotics, and the like. Rich Dixon brought this thought from Pope Leo to mind this week, which seemed appropriate.
When efficiency becomes the ultimate measure of value, people are tempted to see themselves as products to be optimized rather than persons called to relationship and communion.
I hope by now we all realize that when we use social media we are the product. Do not think for even a second that the developers of those tools think of us as humans. We are products served to advertisers who write huge checks to fill the pockets of billionaires.
Let us consider an even more intimate level. How are we treating other human beings with whom we interact?
Do we treat others in even our most mundane projects as tools to be manipulated or as fellow humans with whom we work together?
When we talk with others are we really talking at objects or with someone with whom to seek understanding?
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