Newer technology is (usually) an improvement on older, but the deeper question is whether it is used to foster a worldview so out of touch with the real world that its future effects (from extinctions to climate change) are far from improvements, or whether its use may be convivial, helping to create a world more humane, wiser and happier, with a sensibility – and an ethic – of authenticity.
It is suspenseful, sometimes chilling, humane and wise.
It was wise, humane and often baffling, which may explain why job offers were scarce.
In the process, he has established a reputation for being wise, humane and, above all, sensible.
In this wise, humane and important book, Avishai is taking on the role of a Herzl for the modern age.
Jules' reasoned and humane voice, his wise counsel and his quest for social justice enriched University Settlement and all who benefited from our services.
Like the Sun, it quoted Gove's BBC interview statement that the lack of immigration controls means we cannot be "both humane and also wise with respect to our economic future".
Read the full review Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph: "Gerald Finley's supremely elegant singing had all the verbal clarity and musical incisiveness - nothing forced, nothing mushy - for which he is celebrated, and he radiated the wise humane scepticism which makes Sachs the most attractive character in Wagner's oeuvre.
Strangest of all is the story of Habbakuk, a top-secret plan to build aircraft carriers out of ice mixed with wood-pulp, in which Perutz became involved, but it is actually the lessons of this wise, humane book, rather than the narrative, that are most powerful.
We have a measure of their effect in the panic felt in some quarters by the mere fact of President Obama, a wise, humane and moderate soul if ever there was one, who has come almost to the end of his two terms, having put the country in a vastly better state than he found it in, and this despite everything his opposition could do to thwart the will of the majorities who elected him.
