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Category: Technology

  • RESOURCE | The Universe Is a Question

    “It’s very likely that the universe is really a kind of a question, rather than the answer to anything,” says philosopher technologist Kevin Kelly. He says our role as good askers of questions will remain the most important contribution of our species in a coming world of AI.

    Kevin is co-founder and Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, co-founder of the All Species Foundation (a non-profit aimed at cataloging and identifying every living species on earth), co-founder of the The Rosetta Project (building an archive of all documented human language), on the board of The Long Now Foundation (where he’s investigating how to revive and restore endangered or extinct species, including the wooly mammoth), author of the best-sellers What Technology Wants and The Inevitable, and has been called “the real-life Most Interesting Man in the World.”

    (Both an edited an unedited version of the conversation are available; we recommend the unedited.)

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  • RESOURCE | The Tech-wise Family

    Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. It’s about developing wisdom, character, and courage in the way we use digital media rather than accepting technology’s promises of ease, instant gratification, and the world’s knowledge at our fingertips. And it’s definitely not just about the kids. Andy Crouch takes readers beyond the typical questions of what, where, and when and instead challenges them to answer provocative questions like, “Who do we want to be as a family?” and “How does our use of a particular technology move us closer or farther away from that goal?”

    Andy Crouch is the author of Strong and Weak, Playing God, and Culture Making. He serves on the governing boards of Fuller Theological Seminary and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He joined the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000.

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  • IKON | Digital Roots in Spiritual Soil

    IKON | Digital Roots in Spiritual Soil

    What can a faith as old as Christianity tell us about something as new as mobile technology? Pastor Tim Chaddick examines how Scripture informs our understanding of the intrinsic values of technology—speed, access, and information—then proposes a few starting points for Christian ethics in a digital age.

    The third of a three-part evening.

  • IKON | Technology, Social Media, and Life in a Digital Age

    IKON | Technology, Social Media, and Life in a Digital Age

    Pastor Tim Chaddick joins Tatiana Simonian (Nielson, Twitter) for a conversation about what we should avoid and what we should embrace when it comes to technology. What guidance does the Christian faith give us for life in a digital age?

    The second of a three-part evening.

  • IKON | Layers

    IKON | Layers

    Tatiana Simonian takes a wide-ranging, optimistic-yet-realistic insider’s look at mobile and social technological practices and suggests some practical solutions to some of the more troubling effects they can have on us.

    Tatiana is Vice President of Branded Music Entertainment at Nielsen, as well as former head of music for Twitter. She’s built digital marketing campaigns for many artists and brands, and her writing has appeared in the LA Times, LA Weekly, and Rolling Stone.

    The first of a three-part evening.

  • RESOURCE | The Next One Thousand Years of Christianity

    Kevin Kelly’s essay takes a rare (very) long-range look at what the future of Christianity may hold as a way of considering the Christianity of the present.

    Kevin is co-founder and Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, co-founder of the All Species Foundation (a non-profit aimed at cataloging and identifying every living species on earth), co-founder of the The Rosetta Project (building an archive of all documented human language), on the board of The Long Now Foundation (where he’s investigating how to revive and restore endangered or extinct species, including the wooly mammoth), author of the best-sellers What Technology Wants and The Inevitable, and has been called “the real-life Most Interesting Man in the World.”

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