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December 2019

December 15, 2019

The Advent of Automation

As the automation of work advances, what questions should we be asking about the future...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

Digital Transformation

Digital technologies have been changing our lives since the middle of the twentieth century. Digital...

October 2019

October 25, 2019

The Digital Dimension of Our Lives

There is a new digital dimension to reality, blending with and enhancing our embodied lives...

September 2019

September 20, 2019

New Eschatologies

Reflections on Neal Stephenson’s Fall, new ends, a new end for the library, and the...

September 06, 2019

The Ecclesiology of Virtual Christianity: Formal Sociality

I have been writing about The Robloxian Christians (TRC), a church that exists in the...

August 2019

August 15, 2019

Trust in Technology

In our increasingly complex technological environment of distributed agency, in whom and what do we...

August 07, 2019

Broken code: the vandalism of shalom

Coders play a glorified role in our society. They are makers-of-worlds. To see your code...

July 2019

July 19, 2019

Playing in the Cybernetic Meadow

“I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

Sin and the Tragedy of Techno-Utopianism

“It’s never going to go to zero.” So says Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer,...

June 12, 2019

Technology and Faith

Where are people of faith speaking into discussions about the ethics and future of technology?

May 2019

May 24, 2019

Human Futures: Or, How Not to Be Apocalyptic

Moving beyond transhuman and posthuman futures toward truly apocalyptic human futures.

May 21, 2019

Elements of Digital Wisdom

Elements of a framework for clarifying values, goals, and actions in the digital age.

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Digital Reformation? Consider the Library

How should digital technologies transform the church as an institution? Is the library a model...

April 19, 2019

“What Could Possibly Go Right?”

As we consider what might go wrong with AI, we also must consider what should...

April 09, 2019

The Possibilities of AI Ethics

In light of Google’s dissolution of its external advisory group—barely a week after it was...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

The End and Beginning of Work

Advances in automation and artificial intelligence require us to consider the future of work as...

March 04, 2019

The Limits of Digital Ethics

Digital ethics discussions reveal important agreements as well as disagreements. How can our frameworks accommodate...

February 2019

February 06, 2019

Picking and Choosing Our Technologies: A Response to Laura Turner

Last December, there was an opinions piece in the New York Times called “Internet Church...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Digital Fears and Hopes

Digital literacy can help us confront fake fears and discern true hopes.

January 15, 2019

Material and Formative Technologies

Technology encompasses tools, techniques, and culture—it is material as well as formative.

January 10, 2019

Will AI Replace Man’s Best Friend? A Dog-lover’s take on robot dogs

AIs were popular gifts this past Christmas. Some of them were of the barking, tail-wagging...

January 06, 2019

The Meaning of the City

The city is an autonomous and intelligent multi-agent system participating in new creation.

December 2018

December 27, 2018

The Ecclesiology of Virtual Christianity: Oneness and Catholicity

I have been writing about The Robloxian Christians (TRC), a church that exists in the...

December 12, 2018

Advent for AI

Advent reflections on broadening our imaginative engagement with AI.

December 06, 2018

Forms of Creation

Some medieval wisdom for the machine age.

November 2018

November 20, 2018

AI and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Radical hope for the future is the great secret and power of the apocalyptic imagination.

November 19, 2018

Real Dog, Robot Dog: Weapon, Pet, or Friend?

This dog has something to teach us about being human. He appears in Blade...

November 13, 2018

Utopian, Dystopian, and Apocalyptic Visions of Technology

The apocalyptic imagination provides a conceptual and narrative framework for reconciling our utopian hopes and...

November 04, 2018

The Relational Ontology of Virtual Community

Previously, I introduced the phenomenon of The Robloxian Christians (TRC), a church that exists in...

November 01, 2018

Digital Withdrawal

A recent set of articles in The New York Times adds an interesting twist to the...