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The God of technology, or the god of Technology?
By Rosie Perera | August 10, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Dave Evans has a good article on faith and technology in the latest issue of Comment. Some key quotes:
The key is not just the technology’s availability, but how available it makes us. The purpose of technology is to buy us more time to be available to other things, or to makes us more effective in some endeavour (and so allow us a greater avail upon the world). Good technology is all about availability.
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Technology is attractive because of the God-given allure of the new new thing—but it’s also “sticky,” in that for many of us, it entraps our attention, making us so focused on it that we become less, not more, available.
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Ever so subtly, technology becomes the object of our attention, rather than the tool of it. Developing an availability consciousness will help us guard against accidentally slipping into making a god of Technology, rather than responding to the God of technology.
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