Abu Dhabi, Nov 22: Sri Sugunendra Theertha Swami of Puthige Mutt, Udupi, received a resonating applause as he addressed the first world summit of inter-faith alliance in United Arab Emirates recently.
The two-day summit (November 19 and 20) saw participation of world religious leaders, corporate leaders and global policy makers at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. The theme was ‘Child Dignity in the Digital World’.
In his address, the seer said research being carried out in the name of science and technology should not lead to economic or political domination of one section over others, or corrosion of social and human values, or have a detrimental effect on human health.
He said: “We are now living in the information age or digital age or the internet age. Over the past 40 years we have seen a paradigm shift from traditional industry to an information technology-based industry. We depend so much on internet, computer and hand held digital devices that our brain doesn’t function if there is an outage in the wifi connection or if we forget to carry our mobile phone with us. We have no time for family time since we tend to get buried inside the mobile phone.”
The swamiji suggested a few key proposals to solve the problem of virtual violence and suggested that there should be strict enforcement and disciplinary action to those who violated media regulations as well as quality control measures imposed on the contents of the cyber world based on ethics and human values.
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