Legal defender Bryan Stevenson warned that all the technological advances in the world dont 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 its 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.
【重点单词及短语】
big wig 【俚】大人物;大亨;要人
distraction n. 注意力分散;分心
radical adj. 激进的;彻底的
disempower v. 剥夺权力;力量剥夺;使失去影响力
indiscriminately adv. 不加选择地;任意地
stare into 凝视
pass by 经过;逝去
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