Arianna Huffington On The Rise Of Empathy In America

Maybe technology will lead us back to being more human, eventually?

Arianna Huffington On The Rise Of Empathy In America | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

"We are on the cusp of an epic shift,” wrote Jeremy Rifkin in his 2010 book The Empathic Civilization. “The Age of Reason is being eclipsed by the Age of Empathy.” He makes the case that as technology is increasingly connecting us to one another, we need to understand what the goal of all this connectivity is, and allow humanity to see itself as an extended family living in an interconnected world. The innovators I’ve listed, along with countless others, are the drivers of that worldview..."

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