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Saturday, February 3rd, 2018I’d seen “faceswapped” photos before, and have done my own photoshopping of images to put faces of people I know into famous paintings. But I first became aware of the technology that lets people to edit video footage, replacing heads in the video with other people’s heads, through this impressive montage of Trump and his […]
Platonism of Microsoft Word?
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014I just read an interesting article in the New York Review of Books, “Escape from Microsoft Word” by Edward Mendelson. The author claims that Microsoft Word is built on a Platonic model with the “ideal” of a perfect intangible “document” of which books, letters, memos, and essays are mere imperfect representations. He struggles with what […]
Over-the-top technology?
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014When is new technology excessive? Who would pay $219 for a “smart” toothbrush that reminds them how to brush their teeth? Remember to brush every section of your mouth (who doesn’t do that anyway without reminders), and brush for a full two minutes. And you have to hold your phone in your other hand the […]
New User Registration
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014I’ve had to temporarily disable new user registration (which is only required if you want to post comments), as I was getting flooded with bot registrations. Managing blog spam these days has become a royal pain in the neck. Thus new users will not be able to register and comment until I get around to choosing […]
I’m baaack!
Monday, March 3rd, 2014I had let this blog get broken because I postponed upgrading to the latest version of WordPress for too long, and so it was lying dormant and unusable. Apologies to the many who pointed this out to me who liked to read my thoughts on faith and technology. Well, the blog back up and running […]
Social media vs. real life
Monday, January 21st, 2013The Social Meaning of Technology
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013Good post from my friend Dave Stearns over at tech.soul.culture on how “the social meaning of a new technology is dynamically worked out over time”: The Social Meaning of Technology
Beyond “Netiquette”
Thursday, December 13th, 2012I witnessed a very discouraging thread today on a forum frequented by Christians. It is a very active forum with almost 100,000 users and nearly half a million posts. The forum is meant for asking and answering questions about Bible software, and theological debates are forbidden by the forum guidelines. Sadly, with many people coming […]
Albert Einstein quote
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012“I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” And indeed, I’m already becoming part of that generation, because I can’t find the source of that quote. It’s all over the Internet, attributed to him, but no information about where or when he said […]
Apple picking has always come at a great cost
Thursday, October 11th, 2012Marshall “Soulful” Jones critiques our digital culture through a slam poetry performance of his piece “Touchscreen” at TEDxMontreal. He also would make a pretty good mechanical man living statue. H/T Leif Hansen for the video link.
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