Brian Brock, Captive to Christ, Open to the World: On Doing Christian Ethics in Public, edited by Kenneth Oakes, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014, 143 pages, $15.20 Captive to Christ, Open to the World isn’t your typical work of theology. A collection of edited interviews with Brian Brock (Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at […]
The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul
June 23, 2014 By
Editor’s Note: The Betrayal by Technology, a Portrait of Jacques Ellul is an hour long interview with the French theologian and sociologist, Jacques Ellul, produced by ReRun Productions. Released in 1996, the interview touches on several of the main themes of Ellul’s body of work, including the technological society, the problems technique poses to ethics, and Ellul’s […]
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 […]
Conscience of a Machine
February 24, 2014 By
Gary Marcus has predicted that within the next two to three decades we would enter an era “in which it will no longer be optional for machines to have ethical systems.” Marcus invites us to imagine the following driverless car scenario: “Your car is speeding along a bridge at fifty miles per hour when errant school […]
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