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Technology is transforming the world at an astonishing pace. It was only in 2007 that Steve Jobs launched the iPhone…. It seems likely that the next 10 years will see comparable yet unpredictable advances. Yet confronted with this tsunami it often seems as though the Church is sleepwalking into the technological future, preoccupied with its own internal discussions and oblivious to the complexity of the challenges that are coming our way.
Read MoreOn February 17 2020, BBC Panorama Program explored the rise of Amazon and their strategy for growth, driven in part by ‘obsessive data gathering’. This is a powerful example of Surveillance Capitalism, and Shoshana Zuboff, Roger McNamee and Meredith Whittaker all appear on this informative and disturbing documentary.
Read MoreAdam Alter is a psychologist and writer, currently based at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His academic research focuses on social psychology, judgment and decision-making, with an interest in the effects that subtle cues in the environment can have on human cognition and behaviour.
‘Irresistible’ is broken into three sections:
1. what is ‘behavioural addiction’?
2. ingredients of behavioural addiction; and
3. some possible solutions.
We are citizens in God’s kingdom and members of God’s household, and we are members of earthly families and households, part of neighborhoods, communities, and nations. The way of faithfulness for us is not fundamentally different than it is for any person: seeking to love God and our neighbor with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, by repenting and believing the good news.
Read MoreI looked forward to the release of this book in late 2019. It promised to address similar ground to Shoshana Zuboff’s, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”; but being written by a journalist, I hoped it might be more accessible and, as billed in the launch documentation, offer solutions to the evil implied by the title. At the risk of playing my cards too early – the book is more accessible than Zuboff’s, but it offers little in terms of specific solutions to the problems she describes.
Read MoreIt is hard to escape technology these days. Within our businesses, we need to have an online presence, offering a great ‘user experience’. We need to offer our services or products online. There is constant pressure to innovate; to do things differently, and for the most part this involves some use of new technologies.
Read MoreThis is a rare book: a theology of digital technology written by someone who is both a serious technology practitioner and a professional theologian. Published by IVP Academic, this is quite a serious book. It will be of interest to Technology Professionals interested in Theology and Philosophy; or to Theologians who want to explore the place of Technology in creation, our culture and our daily lives.
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Read MoreChildren and young people in the UK are growing up in a world which is radically different than any previous generation. They have easy access to ‘always-on’ nearly pervasive technology that they can carry around with them. They use technology at school, at home and in their social lives. We see toddlers confidently operating tablets and smartphones.
Read MoreWe very much like the work of START in the USA. START is a grassroots, community organisation which was started in Kansas City, by Krista Boan and Tracy Foster. They have been running workshops for over a year now, and have reached over 3000 people with their practical message of hope for the parents (and grandparents) of digital natives.
Read MoreWe live in times that are reshaping the nature of work, communication, even humanity.
Many call this the early stages of the fourth Industrial Revolution – this time powered not by steam power but by digital innovation. How can we ensure that our contributions to this exciting journey are positive and reflect God’s glory?
Read MoreTo launch the section of TechHuman for Technology Professionals, I wanted to outline some initial priorities for this group. I have spent over 35 years working with Technology for businesses …
Read MoreIf you want to understand why so many smartphone applications seem to be ‘addictive’ – this book explains, with devastating simplicity how it is done. Nir Eyal graduated from Stanford University Business School. Eyal researched what was happening empirically and from that he identified a core pattern that seemed to underpin all ‘successful’ solutions of this type, which he described and called the ‘Hook Model’
Read MoreInteractions with apparently human-like and ‘emotionally intelligent’ AIs are likely to become commonplace within the next ten years, ranging from entirely disembodied agents like chatbots through to physical humanoid robots. This will lead to new and troubling ethical, personal and legal dilemmas.
Read MoreWhen you pick up this little book, with its bright red cover it seems quite innocuous. It’s only just over four hours as an audiobook. I expect that it will provoke strong responses in many readers with its challenging, personal examination of the potential impact of technology on family life, and how you might go about keeping it in its proper place.
Read MoreCollectively, we have been talking with a wide range of specialists across many disciplines. There is massive interest in these issues. In some areas we have found unquestioning enthusiasm, in other areas quiet concern. Some people we speak with are frightened at the scale and pace of change.
Read MoreSpeed of change and unforeseen consequences - it's only 11 years since the first Apple iPhone was launched. Nobody foresaw how smartphones would change our world and our behaviour. An infamous slogan of Silicon Valley is "Move fast and break things" - the naïve assumption is that disruption is always positive.
Read MoreWe are in the relatively early stages of a global ‘Digital Revolution’. Technology is driving unprecedented changes across most aspects of life and work. The pace and scale of that change is accelerating relentlessly. The combination of always-connected devices, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are combining to change human life irreversibly.
Read MoreSherry Turkle has an important and influential voice in current debates about interactions between humans and machines. She trained as a psychoanalyst and joined the MIT computer science department in the 1970’s, working with the celebrated computer pioneer Joseph Weizenbaum.
Read MoreHuman beings have always tried to understand themselves by comparison with the leading technologies of the time. For many centuries of the medieval period and beyond precision clockwork mechanisms represented the pinnacle of technological creation, and it seemed obvious to many thinkers that the human body must represent some kind of clockwork mechanism.
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