Is technological growth outweighing
spiritual growth?

     That question has posed itself recently
as the spiraling miracles of technology devise seemingly infinite
ways in which certain websites can strip away our last shreds of privacy
and confidentiality.

     In 1984, Barbra Streisand was in the
Middle East and appeared on the Good Morning America show via inter-continental
satellite. A common practice now, that technology was in its early
stages, and Streisand commented at the end of the interview, “If only
our hearts could expand as much as technology, we’d be in a good place.”

     Confronted often by Internet and media
information that is frequently incorrect, in 1994, working on her
speech for Harvard’s School of Government, Ms. Streisand had noted,
“I love information, but I’m afraid of the information age – too much
information and not enough spiritual growth to handle it. I’m still
afraid our technology is more advanced than our hearts. There’s something
lacking now – this gap, this void between technology and compassion.”