Summarizing the original article, at both the personal and the global levels, we are beset with multiple problems and
challenges, and the problems seem to just get progressively more complicated with each passing day.
The future requires the evolution of both individual and collective mindsets adequate to successfully and competently meet these challenges.
We argue that the key is the cultivation and
practice of wisdom. We present a theory of wisdom, informed by contemporary research and thinking and strongly connect it to both enhanced future consciousness and ethical character virtues.
Humans have been cyborgs for hundreds of thousands of years, as functional syntheses of the biological and technological. Given the ever-evolving technological dimension of human existence, we propose that wisdom, now and into the future, needs to be conceptualized as a
technologically supported capacity. We argue for the "wise cyborg" as our philosophical and psychological ideal for the future.
We require a higher level of integrative awareness, a more expansive consciousness, heightened ethical abilities, and a multi-faceted technological system for facilitating these capacities. If our educational systems are to serve the needs of humanity and foster the continued evolution of our world, then education should pivot on the development of wise cyborgs.
We outline a theory of a wisdom based, future focused, ethically grounded educational program, and illustrate how technological knowledge and proficiency can
be integrated into such a program to support the development of wise cyborgs.
