Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Digital technology has flipped the world upside down, as significant as it was to move from an

agricultural age to industrial age we're in the middle of moving from an

industrial age to a digital age from the advent of the personal computer to the internet to smartphones

and these digital rectangles everywhere we now have more access to more

information more news and each other than in any other time in human history and yet somehow the whole

experience has become dehumanized to the point that we're preferring artificial relationships

and at times artificial intelligence over the real thing.

Technology has not only reshaped the world around us, it's also reshaped our relationships,

our understanding of ourselves, our

of important ideas, like freedom and truth,

and our understanding of the most important institutions.

Back in 1992, Neil Postman in his book Technopoly, the surrender of culture to technology, wrote this, quote,

new technologies alter those deeply embedded habits of thought which give to a culture its sense of what the world is like, a sense of what is the natural order of things,

what's reasonable, what's necessary, what's inevitable, what's real.

It redefines freedom, truth, intelligence, fact, wisdom, memory history, all words that we live by.

And it does not pause to tell us this, and we do not pause to ask, end quote.

Addressing how technology has reshaped how we think about life in the world

is this month's Lighthouse Voices event.

That's a series co-hosted by the Colston Center and focus on the family,

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