“Technology” Archives

After reading the Huffington Post piece, your first reaction might be to scoff at Casey’s selfishness and narcissism, or to take steps to ensure that your kids never find out about social media.

It is completely impossible for us to forecast the repercussions of our words, even if we intend those words to promote what we consider to be justice.

There are times when I want to burn the Internet to the ground and throw the ashes onto a trash heap — and last week was one of those times.

We rarely consider that we might be wrong, that our thoughts, beliefs, and narratives may be skewed or inaccurate, especially if they’re in regards to a group of people with whom we have serious differences.

The Internet could be seen as a mirror that reflects back to us our best — and our worst — qualities in very public and immediate ways.

When technology becomes so fast, powerful, and ubiquitous as to essentially become invisible to its users, what trade-offs have we (unknowingly) made?

It’s time to appreciate what cassettes lent to the experience of listening to music.

Surfers who are concerned about being potentially morally and spiritually contaminated by Google’s search results now have some “holier” alternatives.

You may not have done something as terrible as tell some unsuspecting kid in an embarrassing video to kill himself, but you’ve responded to something similar in a mocking or derisive way.

Hermelin’s article is an encouragement to look beyond labels, which, more often than not, are tools of dismissal and dehumanization.

Have you heard about the law proposed to regulate the Internet? We’re against it.

Why do seemingly innocuous posts quickly get ugly, and why are people so quick to fan the flames?

The irony, though, is that those who benefit the least from these services are those who make the services’ existence, popularity, and even necessity possible.

The stuff we call “distraction” may last longer than you think. A lot longer.

Once again, something that once was squarely in the domain of science fiction has crossed the line over into reality.

Any form of immortality which cannot account for the totality of existence, and which can’t transcend our limitations and blind spots, is no immortality at all.

Recent actions by Google seem to fly in the face of their slogan.

Annoyed at Amazon for selling a book in favor of pedophilia? There’s more than meets the eye.

A study like this should raise questions about effective time stewardship, i.e., how we can best use the time that has been allotted to us for God’s glory and our good.