No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

Jack Kornfield (1945-), Jack Kornfield is a bestselling American author and teacher in the vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism.