As the rain fades headlights trace an electronic image of neon lights on the road side slick from the drops which also litter the silky trap where the spider shudders and shimmies another day another dollar working for the man at the office more bread winning where the loaf has beady eyes and wings […]
Archives for April 2014
We love our phones. Do our phones love us?
April 28, 2014 By
Since we’re always using our phones, our reading list this week is all about our phones. Why do we love them? Do they help our social lives or hurt us? How do they affect our children? How do they affect our minds? If you feel like your phone has taken away your sense of place […]
Perspectives on Privacy and Human Flourishing
April 21, 2014 By
I’ve not been able to track down the source, but somewhere Marshall McLuhan wrote, “Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.” The unfolding NSA scandal has brought privacy front and center. A great deal is being written right now about the ideal […]
Social Engineering, Mobile Lovers, and Technologizing the Fertility Awareness Method
April 20, 2014 By
Happy Easter! Here’s a list of some of what we found interesting this week. If you missed it last week, check out the final entry in our Lenten blog series on technology and spirituality: Trappists, Technology, and the Dictatorship of Relativism. Banksy’s latest confirmed painting skewers modern cellphone addiction – Washington Post “Banksy’s latest confirmed […]
Trappists, Technology, and the Dictatorship of Relativism
April 16, 2014 By
Part seven in our Lenten series on technology and spirituality. This past weekend, I had the opportunity of leaving home for a retreat at a Trappist monastery, Mepkin Abbey. The monks, though they haven’t taken a vow of silence, speak only when necessary. They spend their time praying the liturgy of the hours, practicing lectio divina, […]
Derek Schuurman’s “Shaping a Digital World”: A Review
April 13, 2014 By
Writing about technology is difficult. Writing well about technology is more difficult and writing well about technology from an authentically Christian perspective is especially difficult. The problems are numerous: a multiplicity of definitions of technology, a lack of a robust vocabulary to dissect and explore technology, bad theology, an easy temptation to black and white […]
Atheism, Distributism, Digital Humanities, and Slow Reading
April 13, 2014 By
This week’s reading list is a little varied. We’ve got a look at the conflation of atheism and intellectual sophistication from the Atlantic, a piece on reading from the excellent new blog, “The Infernal Machine,” and a review of a ‘slow-reading’ manifesto from the Times Literary Supplement. Also, editorial board member Arthur Hunt has a […]
God’s Grandeur in the Media Environment
April 9, 2014 By
Part six in our Lenten series on technology and spirituality. At the beginning of Lent, we examined how time-saving technology often has the tendency to help us do more work in less time and then fill up our extra time with new kinds of work. I think we intuitively realize this and commit ourselves to media […]
After Sparknotes
April 7, 2014 By
After the book came SparkNotes, prepared at a moment’s notice to simplify character, plot, and theme for those who need the classics with less language and sophistication. Tired of studying? Sponsored ads offer competing models of interest with informative captions like “Find Your Secret Crush Now” and “Cutest Celebs on Twitter.” You can click them […]
Atheism and Transhumanism, Ethics and Automation
April 7, 2014 By
We’ve got a couple articles on ethics and automation this morning, with Aeon Magazine giving an large overview and Singularity Hub looking at robots writing news stories. Michael Sacasas covered this topic for us several weeks ago in his Conscience of a Machine. We’ve also got an article on the ethics of Twitter with a […]
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