High Tech, High Touch: A Book Review
...ellectual development is fostered by media. A world where science tinkers with the blueprints of humanity in an effort to create a more perfect being. Most of us ride these technological waves without much consideration for the moral and ethical riptides that lurk below. John Naisbitt’s book, High Tech-High Touch, reveals the ongoing struggle to embrace human dignity while integrating technology into our lives. Naisbitt opens the proverbial Pandora’s box in addressing issues like media violence, genetic manipulation, and the use of the human body as “technological” art. What makes Naisbitt an independent thinker, however, is not his ability to answer difficult questions; the true mark of his literary and scholarly excellence is his ability to foster and perpetuate independent thinking in his readers by not answering them. Instead, he ...