Tech is JUST a Tool: What’s unique about tech? (Post #4)

While digital technology resembles tools in important ways – it also has some unique characteristics that set it apart. This liminal space of difference is often overlooked as the Church navigates through our cultural moment of media saturation, device proliferation, and Covid-19. Legitimately, the Church has seen technology as a tool to help bridge this current challenge. Just as legitimately, continued adoption and usage of digital tech in the church needs attention, interrogation, and collective imagination for a responsible ethic with digital technology.

Tech is JUST a Tool: Intellectual Ethics and Debate (Post #3)

Tools can be thought of in a limited way as our technologies, how humanity exerts and expresses its will over surroundings and circumstances. Nicholas Carr in his stellar work, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, helpfully examines the formative shape of our tools and I want to share briefly what IContinue reading “Tech is JUST a Tool: Intellectual Ethics and Debate (Post #3)”