Posts Tagged Technology
iPhone’s Fifth Birthday
Kevin Roose has some things to say to iPhone and Apple. It is quite humorous, especially his graphics. Check it out.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/iphone-youre-ruining-everything.html
If you don’t know who Kevin Roose is, he wrote the book Unlikely Disciple, and as a result has something of a cult following in the Christian realm. To the rest of the world, he is a writer for New York Magazine.
Technology and Faith: 12 Precautions
Posted by Erik in Church, computers, Pastors and Such, Preaching, Social Media on March 8, 2012
Ed Stetzer considers some of the dangers of technology in ministry.
What do you think?
A Look at Windows 8
Posted by Erik in computers, Cross Posts, Pastors and Such on March 2, 2012
Thanks to GeekRev for posting a link to lifehacker’s quick review of Windows 8′s Metro UI.
I am not a fan of the UI, personally. It probably works great with a phone or tablet, but I can’t imagine working with it on a large screen. I have the same feeling toward the way Apple added the Launchpad from iOS to Mac OS 10.7. It just seems awkward and unnecessary.
Do not fear the ‘tech’
Posted by Erik in computers, Definitions, General, History, Media, Movies and TV, software, television, Things We Shouldn't Discuss on June 27, 2011
Thanks be to God, we have here neither free schools nor printing presses, and I hope we will not have any for a hundred years, for education has sent into the world doubt, heresy and sectarianism, and the printing press has propagated, in addition to all these evils, attacks against governments! -Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677), Governor of Virginia
Technology takes time to get use to. There is a bit of a delay between the implementation of something that has tremendous potential and the realization of that potential. Then, there is another delay between the realization of that potential and the integration of it.
Think of how drastically the moveable type printing press changed the world. The Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment were direct results of the printing press. This change did not happen overnight, and even as the change was happening, there were a lot of people abusing and misusing the new technology.
The same can be said for virtually all technology that changes how we live: the automobile, the jet liner, the telephone, the personal computer, the internet, the mobile device. These technologies are still in their infancy.
When Sir William Berkeley condemned the printing press, it had not yet spurred on the Age of Revolution. It was a century before the American Revolution. Many of the most subversive books of our culture had not yet been written. The printing press had not even begun to open the doors for heresy and sectarianism.
But along with the dangers came the tremendous benefits. The printed book gave millions access to information that had been hidden from them. Knowledge, wisdom, and information flowed freely in a way that we take for granted today, and which is dwarfed by the speed in which we share information now.
People condemned the telephone as dangerous to the family unit. The Internet was immoral and dangerous (parts of it still are!). Translating the Bible into ‘vulgar languages’ was condemned by clergy and monarchs alike. Every invention that has changed the world has been condemned at some point.
Technology itself is not evil. They are tools, and tools are only as good or evil as the hands that wield them. What can be used for evil can also be use for good.
