technology

Clouds evoke the sublime. What about the cloud that stores our data and mediates its flow?

Elon Musk’s techno-optimism needs something to temper it. Maybe the dimmer outlook of a companion named Hobbes.

Both Apple’s “Crush” ad and Catholic Answers’ AI priest alarmed people. There’s some hope in that reaction.

These movies about influential consumer objects aren’t really origin stories at all.

Kate Ott challenges us to practice erotically attuned love everywhere, even online.

Jacques Ellul diagnosed the problem. Paul Patton and Robert Woods offer some solutions.

Technology can’t give us what we really want, says Andy Crouch.

The central character of Kazuo Ishiguro’s virtuosic 2021 novel is an “Artificial Friend” with a young girl’s body.

Andrew Root cautions pastors that doing more is not the answer.

Ed Cyzewski’s prepandemic takedown of the digital formation of Christians is still surprisingly useful.

“It comes down to human solidarity. Another name for solidarity is love.”

Kate Ott looks at the moral implications of digital language.

Alan Jacobs's biography of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and C.S. Lewis

What does it mean to make things, and why does it matter?

Jeremiah Webster charts a via negativa in verse.

The tech-focused series provides abundant fuel for ethical and theological debate.

If we become godlike, what god will we be like?

One tells us we can have anything we want. The other says our problems are someone else's fault.

Ethicist George Lucas argues that new forms of warfare are "mired in epistemological crisis."