“Our faith in technology connects us to long lost friends. It also enables us to avoid people we’d rather text with than talk to. It is our hiding place. Our faith in technology is so widespread that we feel we… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
“Google keeps their formulas secret even as they devour more of our habits. CEO Eric Schmidt believes that what customers want is for Google… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
This celebration of The Bible will inspire people around the world to rediscover a beloved text in new ways. This is a passion project… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always be a poor substitute for… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
“A crying need for wisdom and discernment emerges in an era of too much information. What do we discover as we attempt to see through technology, to assess the promises it offers? Technology has become an alternative religion. It has distinct values, celebrated saints, and rites of passage. We sacrifice our privacy in exchange for services. Our passions become quantifiable,… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share
“Jacques Ellul suggested too much information creates a confused sense of impotence: The infinite multiplicity of facts that I am given about each situation makes it impossible for me to choose or decide. I thus adopt the general attitude of letting things take their course. But the course that things take is essentially that of the process of technical development. . . .… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share
“There is the constant temptation to relate to the iPhone rather than our world. It is a convenient filter for screening calls, keeping colleagues at a manageable distance. It provides a safe place to hide when we’re anxious in a crowd. We avoid awkward moments by fading into our phone. It prompts us to look down rather than up, to… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share
“Sam Lessin, project manager at Facebook, suggests, “We as a species in the last few decades have gotten three new superpowers. . . . We can literally… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
“Pop culture was repackaged with the iPhone in mind. Our news, information, and video feeds were reformatted to Apple’s specifications. In a Wired cover… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
“We have been swamped by a tsunami of new technologies, without pausing to consider whether they are good or bad, helpful or hurtful. Are… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
“We can be completely ignorant about how or why something works and yet still relish the results.” — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
“What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
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