An extract from a Guardian piece by Tal Ben-Shahar on classes in happiness (they used to be called RE in my day) that has relevance to the theme of IT as servant, not master:

To transform, in contrast, is about changing the form of the container - changing the way students perceive the world and interpret the data that comes in. To help students lead fulfilling lives, information is necessary, but not sufficient.

The late poet, author and Harvard professor Archibald MacLeish commented on the state of the world in the 1960s: "What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science - information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won't."

Neither will more information save our culture from the rising levels of depression and unhappiness. We need education that is transformative as well - which is exactly what positive psychology offers.