Our technology is way ahead of our ethics. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

Recently, Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired Magazine, argued there are two kinds of problems

with emerging technology. Class 1 problems are when tech doesn't work perfectly. Think

code glitches, wheels are falling off, expensive repairs, et cetera. Market forces typically

solve these kinds of problems within a few years. Class 2 problems, however, are more insidious.

They arise when technology works too well. Like, for example, facial recognition software.

What if the system was infallible in recognizing a person from just their face? asked Kelly.

There'd be no escaping it, no way to duck out in public. He'd be perfectly tracked, not only by the

public, but by advertisers and governments. Being in public would have a different meaning than it does

now. Look, Kelly's no Luddite, but he does realize how limited our will and our abilities are

to really think through the implications of our technologies. Christians who understand the fall,

not to mention human history, should too,

and that our only real grounding for ethics is if God made the world and us in his image in the

first place. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point.