He said that modern society was saturated with technology; that computerized, technological barbarians were everywhere, and the humanities were largely ignored. If society continued its frenzied ways in pursuit of it knows not what, where would we end up? This prospect terrified Hsu. On the other hand, it was one of those few elected to Humanities and Social Sciences who attracted the most attention at this year's conference.
他表示，現代社會是高科技叢林，到處充滿自動化、科技化的「野蠻人」；而放眼全世界，從事人文社會研究的人數都愈來愈少，發展方向錯誤、愈走愈窄，已難看到對生命奧秘、人性尊嚴等議題的大型專題研究，整個社會的忙忙碌碌將不知為何而來？