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Technology
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The Church, Technology
Agreeing with McLaren
It doesn’t happen every day, but I just read something from Brian McLaren that I not only agree with but applaud.
“[Philosopher Marshall] McLuhan said that every innovation is an amputation. For example, when you invent the wheel, your legs become weaker. When you invent the television, your ability to become present becomes weaker. When you […] -
Culture 3, Technology
Postman on Mutating Media
Every medium of communication, I am claiming, has resonance, for resonance is metaphor writ large. Whatever the original and limited context of its use may have been, a medium has the power to fly far beyond that context into new and unexpected ones. Because of the way it directs us to organize our minds and […]
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Culture 3, Technology, Media
Progress, Technology and the Abolition of Humanity
09.06.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsC. S. Lewis’s now-classic Abolition of Man explores how modernist trends in education could lead to the destruction of humanity. The book is shocking in several respects, not least in its evocation of this year, today, right now. I caught myself checking the copyright page more than once, because I couldn’t really believe that Lewis’s […]
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Education, Technology
Laptop Lag
The New York Times reports on the failure of technology to save education.
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Theology, Technology
We Don’t Need No Technosavior
07.17.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments“There is a limit to the promise of new technology, and that it cannot be a substitute for human values.”–Neil Postman
It may be that our romance with technology has finally run its course. Our expectation that technological advances will contribute to or bring about a supremely humane way of life has suffered blow after blow […]
