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The Glass Cage
A few years ago, I read Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together, which studied the effects of social media on our relationships. Though I really liked the book, I couldn’t relate as well to the…
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Anonymusing
We were working on our salad when he seemed to change the subject and asked, as we all sometimes do, about the role of moral authority in restraining a person from doing wrong.…
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Vanishing Privacy
I heard this report the other night while I was making dinner. It’s about Facebook changing its privacy policy (again) and users’ discomfort about it (again). The article is worth reading, but what…
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Technology in school?
Jess posted a link to this article about a technology-free school where tech execs send their children. Very interesting — definitely worth a look. I’ve been thinking about showing my 5th grader how…
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The Lost Art of Reading
David Ulin’s Lost Art of Reading has been a thought-provoking little book. Described as a “ruminative essay,” this compact reflection on the distinctiveness of reading, and its role in an increasingly networked information…
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Facebook and blogging
Over the last year I’ve read of several fellow bloggers who’ve left or put limits on their Facebook involvement. One is Deb; another is Jess; most recently, Pastor Dennis. I find something I…
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Revisiting Wendell Berry’s “Fidelity”
Yesterday, we buried my daughter’s hamster. She was injured a week ago, then endured a trip to the vet and a week of pain medication before quietly slipping away. Did she die of…
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The Next Story
Tim Challies’ The Next Story: Life and Faith After the Digital Explosion is a very satisfying read for anyone interested in a Christian perspective on the digital age. How do our high-tech devices…
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Tech journal
As I’m reading The Next Story, I find myself with questions when I read passages like these: God made us creative beings in his image and assigned to us a task that would…
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Alone Together
M.I.T. professor Sherry Turkle has written two previous books on the subject of technology and its effects on humanity. Apparently The Second Self, published 26 years ago, presents a more sunny thesis that…
