Legal defender Bryan Stevenson warned that all the technological advances in the world don t add up to justice: No technology or design will allow us to being fully human until we also pay attention to suffering. And Atul Gawande, beloved doctor and journalist, reminded the audience of the power of the simple intervention when speaking about the ways in which the use of a basic checklist has transformed public health: We have trained, hired and rewarded people to be cowboys. But it s pit crews we need.
These big thinkers, and many more over the course of last week, reminded us that, though they spoke at a conference renowned for its technological prowess, our tools are only virtuous when coupled with the Platonic ideal of the examined life. Our identities, relationships, and good work, may be fed, nurtured, and amplified by the gadgets at our fingertips, but they most vividly come to life in the precious, white spaces that punctuate our otherwise overscheduled, overconnected lives.
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