Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday warned that the Internet does not make
people more humane but instead risks increasing a "sense of solitude and
disorientation" among "numbed" young people.
"A large number of
young people... establish forms of communication that to do not increase
humaneness but instead risk increasing a sense of solitude and
disorientation," Benedict told a Vatican conference on culture.
He
also said that young people were being "numbed" by the Internet, adding
that the technology was creating an "educational emergency -- a
challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence."
Benedict
last month said the growing use of new technologies should set off "an
alarm bell" as it was blurring the boundary between truth and illusion.
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