Technology
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Technology is a part of our daily lives. In fact, technology has been a part of the daily life of man from the beginning. Whether that technology is relatively simple — a garden hoe or a flint knife — or incredibly complex — a nuclear reactor or a quantum computer — it is, nevertheless, technology, which is to say that it is a material application of science (i.e., knowledge) to achieve a human end.
Technology may be good, bad, or neutral, but it cannot be truly or fully assessed in the absence of an assessment of the attendant intention of the men who develop and deploy it. For the Christian, there are additional considerations. Some technologies bring with them intrinsic or even inherent risks, and this grows more pressing by the day. We must be intentional with our use of technology, and we must recognize that neither is all knowledge good nor is all ignorance evil.
Neither knowledge nor its material application (i.e., technology) is amoral. As Christians, we must be aware of the risks and of the right mindset with regard to technology and our use of it. The Church faces novel threats and we do not have the benefit of any insight from past Christians, for what we face they could not even conceive. We are in an uncharted land, because we are the ones who have been tasked with making the charts.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone |
| 0:45.3 | Choir, we're going to be discussing technology. This is going to be hopefully a shorter episode. |
| 0:50.3 | We're going to talk about the nature of technology for the reason that it's a part of all |
| 0:56.8 | of our lives and we want to sort of frame the ideas behind it in such a way that by the end |
| 1:03.0 | is hopefully more of you will be equipped to make wise moral decisions around the use, the application |
| 1:10.3 | of different types of technology. |
| 1:11.6 | This is something that is a huge part of the discussion today, you know, |
| 1:15.6 | with things around AI and generative art and that sort of thing, which we'll get to at the end. |
| 1:21.6 | But fundamentally, technology has always been a part of human life. |
| 1:26.6 | And so to begin, we want to |
| 1:29.9 | sort of disabuse everyone of the notion that a technology is something that you plug in or something |
| 1:36.7 | is from the 20th century. Technology doesn't mean modern. The definition that we're going to use |
| 1:42.9 | today for technology is a material |
| 1:46.0 | application of science to achieve a human end. So I'm going to explain briefly each of those |
| 1:50.9 | words because they're all doing something here. As I've said before, especially recently on |
| 1:54.8 | Twitter, when Corey and I speak a sentence, every word is carrying part of the load. And if you |
| 2:00.8 | omit some of the words, |
| 2:02.1 | you're going to misunderstand us and get angry. So technology, a material application of |
| 2:06.8 | science to achieve a human end. Material. We're talking about the physical world. We're talking |
| 2:11.5 | about creation. That is we're not talking about spiritual things from God. We're talking |
| 2:16.8 | about things you can touch, you can see, |
| 2:18.5 | you can visualize, you can think about. Application means you're actually doing something. It's not |
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