Pope Francis on Sunday urged the youth to judiciously use
information technology (IT) lest "the psychology of the computer let us
think that we know it all."
Speaking at an
encounter with the youth at the University of Santo Tomas, the pope said
having many modern means of communication can help but there is a
danger of accumulating information.
"Today with
so many means of communication, we are overloaded with information. Is
that bad? Not necessarily ... It is good and it can help, but there is a
real danger of living in a way of accumulating information. We have so
much information but maybe we dont know what to do with that
information," he said through an interpreter.
He warned of the risk of becoming museums of young people who he
said have everything but may not know what they want to do with them.
The Pope said the challenge is to learn how to love and "through that love, that information bear fruit."
"We dont need youth museum but we do need holy young people," he said.
Also, he said the youths should learn to use their hearts, minds and
hands - "to think, to feel, to do, and all that harmoniously."
The Pope also warned against having the psychology of a computer to "think we know it all."
"Let us not have the psychology of a computer to think we know it all," he said. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
