We mentioned earlier in the year that Read Schuchardt would be speaking as part of Christ Community Church’s TrendingNow Series. Here is the video from his presentation. In it, Dr. Schuchardt analyzes the so-called “better quality of life” provided by technology in the post-digital-explosion age. Are we really improving quality of life through technology? He proposes […]
3 Poems: Life on a Wind Farm
July 28, 2014 By
Under the Turbines Infants and toddlers cannot speak and even pre-teens may not have the vocabulary to describe the unprecedented symptoms they suffer Teenagers can tell you more— they are developing a lexicon for suffering They are beginning to see that life is unfair and full of strife and even if they sometimes […]
Popes, Pseudo-Events, Computer Marriage and the Simple Life
May 19, 2014 By
In this week’s reading list, we have quite a combination. A murder in Montgomery remains unsolved as the victim’s simple life leaves no social media, email or other electronic footprints for law enforcement to follow. A Florida man is demanding his right to wed his pornography-laden computer. We’ve also got a scholarly love letter to […]
Building a Bridge to 1986
September 11, 2013 By
As Michael Sacasas notes in his recent post, “What Motivates the Technology Critic?” there are two common dispositions towards technology: the Arcadian disposition that mourns for what is lost and the Utopian disposition that celebrates what is gained. When I come across someone with a strong Arcadian disposition towards technology, my favorite experiment is to […]
How the West really lost God? By mediating sex, argues new book
May 16, 2013 By
Secularization wasn’t the inevitable result of the Enlightenment, it was the result of the widespread acceptance of a new media. More specifically, the mediating of the one flesh union with the technology of contraception. Or so argues Mary Eberstadt in her provocative new book that is sure to spark great debate, How the West Really Lost […]
The Technological Return to the Family: How the Internet is Bringing People Back Home
April 1, 2013 By
I’m a husband and father who has an outlandish dream: I want to spend the vast majority of my time with my wife and children. Why can’t I do so now? Because I have to work at a job. Commute to and from a big city each day to get there. I have to do […]
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