April 1, 2009

Q: Kevin Kelly A: George Lucas

Taken from a February 1997 interview:

Q: At one time you said, "Technology won't save us." Do you think technology is making the world better or worse?

A: If you watch the curve of science and everything we know, it shoots up like a rocket. We're on this rocket and we're going perfectly vertical into the stars. But the emotional intelligence of humankind is equally if not more important than our intellectual intelligence. We're just as emotionally illiterate as we were 5,000 years ago; so emotionally our line is completely horizontal. The problem is the horizontal and the vertical are getting farther and farther apart. And as these things grow apart, there's going to be some kind of consequence of that.

The full interview

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