Is Technology About To Lead Us Toward Enlightenment?

At the very least, it can fix the junk floating in our heads.

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I was in the middle of a ten-day silent meditation retreat, deep in the Canadian wilderness, when a shocking insight dawned on me.

It was six days in with no phone. No method to return to the outside world. No one to talk to except my teacher. Just an hour after hour of settling the mind.