Technology - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/technology/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:37:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Does Your Online Presence Mirror Your Values? https://bahaiteachings.org/does-your-online-presence-mirror-your-values/ https://bahaiteachings.org/does-your-online-presence-mirror-your-values/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=50349 If you’re an adult, try to imagine the life of a young person right now. Do you think growing up in today’s culture would be harder than growing up in...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/does-your-online-presence-mirror-your-values/feed/ 2 9 African American Inventors Who Changed the World https://bahaiteachings.org/african-american-inventions-that-changed-the-world/ https://bahaiteachings.org/african-american-inventions-that-changed-the-world/#comments Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=75649 If I asked you to name five famous Black people, living or deceased, who would you come up with? I asked this same question in an interactive presentation I gave...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/african-american-inventions-that-changed-the-world/feed/ 3 The 9 Different Types of Safety: From Physical to Emotional https://bahaiteachings.org/different-types-safety-physical-emotional/ https://bahaiteachings.org/different-types-safety-physical-emotional/#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=85289 two people hugging and displaying emotional safetyShoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith, stated that the Baha’i community “should feel it to be its first and inescapable obligation to nurture, encourage, and safeguard every minority...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/different-types-safety-physical-emotional/feed/ 1 Planned Obsolescence: A Symptom of a Deeper Crisis https://bahaiteachings.org/planned-obsolescence-a-symptom-of-a-deeper-crisis/ https://bahaiteachings.org/planned-obsolescence-a-symptom-of-a-deeper-crisis/#comments Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84600 A smartphone crumbling apart: concept of planned obsolescenseI received three class action lawsuit notices in the past three months, informing me I was entitled to cash settlements for purchase misrepresentations. That fact, and recent headline news, prompted...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/planned-obsolescence-a-symptom-of-a-deeper-crisis/feed/ 2 Dr. George Washington Carver: Inventor and Baha’i Advocate https://bahaiteachings.org/dr-george-washington-carver-inventor-bahai-advocate/ https://bahaiteachings.org/dr-george-washington-carver-inventor-bahai-advocate/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=83429 Dr. George Washington Carver was one of the most famous African Americans of his time.  Although he was born into slavery, he later made history as an extraordinary inventor, agricultural...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/what-ai-means-for-our-human-future/feed/ 4 Can Courtesy Help Social Media Fulfill its Promise? https://bahaiteachings.org/can-courtesy-help-social-media-fulfill-its-promise/ https://bahaiteachings.org/can-courtesy-help-social-media-fulfill-its-promise/#respond Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:00:42 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=81350 Remember how social media once promised us a brave new world of interconnectedness, community building, and an expanded public sphere enriched by the free exchange of ideas?  Alas, although we...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/can-courtesy-help-social-media-fulfill-its-promise/feed/ 0 Could Humans Artificially Create a Living Being? https://bahaiteachings.org/could-humans-create-a-living-being/ https://bahaiteachings.org/could-humans-create-a-living-being/#comments Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:00:49 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=81077 On its surface the act of human procreation is solely due to the physical actions of humans – yet the results of this physical act are still somehow attributed to...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/could-humans-create-a-living-being/feed/ 1 Human Beings: the Way the Cosmos Knows Itself https://bahaiteachings.org/human-beings-the-way-the-cosmos-knows-itself/ https://bahaiteachings.org/human-beings-the-way-the-cosmos-knows-itself/#respond Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:00:15 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=81025 The Bab, the prophetic forerunner of Baha’u’llah, in a beautiful and profound passage provisionally translated by Nader Saiedi, presented an explanation of  the soul as product of divine self-description: Therefore...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/human-beings-the-way-the-cosmos-knows-itself/feed/ 0 What Can ChatGPT Tell Us About the Human Soul? https://bahaiteachings.org/what-can-chatgpt-tell-us-about-the-human-soul/ https://bahaiteachings.org/what-can-chatgpt-tell-us-about-the-human-soul/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=80965 With the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI, and other artificial intelligence (AI) programs pending from multiple sources, concerns about the capabilities of modern AI have grown rapidly. Should we all...

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