Many today feel uncertain about how to respond to a changing technological landscape. If neither technophobia nor technophoria are adequate responses, can we chart a middle way? This lecture outlines a few rules for what technology is, how it behaves, what we should do about it, and proposes a response that avoids the double dangers of fear and utopianism.
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A lecture given by Andy Patton (L'Abri Worker) at English L'Abri on 18 October, 2017. For more information, visit labri.org/england and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.
For further reading:
What Technology Wants (Kevin Kelly)
Understanding Media (Marshall McLuhan)
Technopoly (Neil Postman)
The Technological Society (Jacques Ellul)
The Singularity Is Near (Ray Kurzweil)

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