technology
Welcome to the commodity biopic
These movies about influential consumer objects aren’t really origin stories at all.
A tech-savvy Christian sexual ethic
Kate Ott challenges us to practice erotically attuned love everywhere, even online.
In the dance with technology, who leads?
Jacques Ellul diagnosed the problem. Paul Patton and Robert Woods offer some solutions.
Personhood beyond personalization
Technology can’t give us what we really want, says Andy Crouch.
A robot learns to be a child
The central character of Kazuo Ishiguro’s virtuosic 2021 novel is an “Artificial Friend” with a young girl’s body.
We need our screens right now. But what about later?
Ed Cyzewski’s prepandemic takedown of the digital formation of Christians is still surprisingly useful.
Why climate activist Bill McKibben is concerned about AI and genetic engineering
“It comes down to human solidarity. Another name for solidarity is love.”
Ethical hacks for managing our adolescent technologies
Kate Ott looks at the moral implications of digital language.
Christian humanism in a technocratic world
Alan Jacobs's biography of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and C.S. Lewis
Black Mirror shows us ourselves, being terrible and constantly getting better at it
The tech-focused series provides abundant fuel for ethical and theological debate.
The incarnation and the challenge of transhumanism
If we become godlike, what god will we be like?
Two stories that define our world
One tells us we can have anything we want. The other says our problems are someone else's fault.
The values and moral quandaries of cyber war
Ethicist George Lucas argues that new forms of warfare are "mired in epistemological crisis."
Curious, by Ian Leslie
In Ian Leslie’s telling, curiosity is far from a valued quality. Augustine, he notes, equated curiosity with temptation.
What body cameras can't solve
In the wake of the grand jury’s failure to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown—and in light of conflicting eyewitness accounts of the incident—many have argued that video evidence would have helped a lot. Body-mounted cameras offer a technological solution to what is otherwise a problem of human moral complexity: eyewitnesses can’t agree; officers can’t behave; human evidence can’t be trusted. Technology, the argument suggests, can supersede all of this.
And then, of course, a grand jury in New York City failed to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of another unarmed black man, Eric Garner.