The Dalai Lama on Technological Change

Is the Dalai Lama a transhumanist singularitarian? Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama on December 16, 2007 in Turin, Italy answering a question by David Orban: "How can people find the right balance if their adaptability is stretched to its limits by technological progress evolving the rules of change?"

The changes that we observe around us are accelerating, and in a positive feedback loop the successive cycles feed on the previous ones’ effects. The source of these changes is technology, as application of the increased knowledge we have of the world around us. As individuals, and as societies we have demonstrated to be very capable of adapting to the changes of our environment, but this necessarily has limits.

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