Jungle is life to its maximum. Every element in it, animal or plant, micro or macro, lives and dies because of the other. The jungle has three main layers. The lower part is top- soil, low plants and bushes. The middle part is relatively open, but full of side branches and air roots. The third part is the upper deck: immense tree tops full of leaves and flowers. Every layer has its own variety of bacteria, para- sites and animals. Some jungle friends say that there are monkeys who always live in the top layer, without ever coming to the ground and that there are ground animals which never make it to the top. However, the top is not more important than the lower part, and no species can exist without the other, though they are not even aware of their interdependency!

This paper is about the fascinating interdependency of life, with its fixed rules in apparent chaos, life and death, and abundant colors and beauty.

I'm not qualified to write an ethics or a theology for technology. My purpose for writing is to provide tools for understanding and for knowing other sides of our reality, abroad and also at home. I want to contribute to more integral understanding as opposed to separation of opposites, poor and rich, church and business, rational and dream, efficiency and aesthetics. Without wanting to do away with any promising potential of contemporary Western science and technology, I call for reevaluating human quality as it is. We should not care for each other only because the other is efficient or poor but because the other has something to offer. Through the ages we have often ignored the human potential to integrate with our environment. Instead we want to dominate and manipulate that environment to our convenience.

The jungle is our model as it encourages us to cross from layer to layer and to know other ways of living life. The roots of the jungle represent the underground, which though invisible, as a fourth level, sustains our world. The aggressive beauty of the jungle makes us stand back in awe, carefully pondering our place in this creation!