Via Christianity Today:
The most important writing on technology takes place in the middle of major technological shifts. Before the new trends become so normal that questions are no longer asked and protests no longer raised, we need the perspectives of parents watching their kids adopt technologies barely conceivable in the days of their own childhood.
With the dawn of the digital age, a major technological shift is currently underway. Those of us who can still recall the pre-Internet dark ages need to be making observations and taking notes. If you once brought home a bulky answering machine from Radio Shack, created documents by way of typewriters, or enjoyed nightly entertainments in the glow of a cathode ray, then we need your wisdom: How is digital technology shaping and modifying society and culture?
More importantly, how is this new media culture, so in love with the little letter "i," informing our ideas about God and faith?
Points:
- “…secular society often appeals to religious language when describing digital technology.”
- “…we need to acknowledge the possibility that these new technologies and their makers can demand an allegiance as totalizing as religious faith.”
- “Who (or what) are the iGods? …the august pantheon of digital business magnates and their corporations.”
- “…we are left wondering if the digital age is inevitably an era of religious compromise.”
- “We are also left without a clearly defined theological vision for technology.”
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