Providence, USA, 10 March 2014 — At a time when technology connects more people than ever before, it can also be a force of fragmentation, warned Mawlana Hazar Imam, diminishing rather than deepening our knowledge of one another and causing increasingly diverse societies to disintegrate.
“More information at our fingertips can mean more knowledge and understanding,” he said, “but the incalculable multiplication of information can also mean more error, more exaggeration, more misinformation, more disinformation, more propaganda.”
“The problem of fragmentation” continued Hazar Imam, “comes when diverse elements spin off on their own, when the bonds that connect us across our diversities begin to weaken.”
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