Just Saw That Social Justice Advocate ...
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--Birju Pandya
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Oct 24, 2014

 


Just saw that social justice advocate (and Awakin Farmer teammate) Preeta Bansal gave a TEDxTalk this week! Here's what the TEDblog quoted her with - As a lawyer and governance expert, Preeta Bansal believes that our technological capabilities have outpaced our ability to make laws that regulate them — including the kinds of laws that keep humanity’s worst impulses in check.

“We need a postmodern moral conception of ourselves,” she suggests, “because we can no longer rely on the state and market to regulate our excesses.” And we need to start now. “In this age of do-it-yourself innovation, where an individual can now produce and distribute what governments, corporations and large institutions did in previous centuries, we no longer have the luxury of waiting for law, policy and ethics to catch up.”
 
She muses: “Where will we find the sustained compassion and wisdom that will allow us to regulate ourselves?” and "In this age of everything, we can no longer rely on technology alone, we must also (re)grow or inner selves." 

 

Posted by Birju Pandya on Oct 24, 2014


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