Chapter 1: Perspective | John Dyer

From the Garden to the City by John DyerI'm chillin' on a blog tour promoting From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology by John Dyer. My post is featured this week at ChurchM.ag. Check it out >>. **UPDATE:  ChurchM.ag was down for 24 hours, but is now back up.

---- The downtown intersection of digital technology and Christian theology has been increasingly busy (one imagines sleek futuristic cars on tracks), and John Dyer's new From The Garden to the City may be the smartest vehicle for clear thought that I've seen yet. (For some other recent models, you think of Tim Challies' Next Story (pretty much a Volvo--all about safety), Shane Hipps Flickering Pixels (SUV--cool, but too easy to roll).

We're jumping in to Chapter 1: Perspective, and the quickest way in is to check out four quick quotes:

"Alan Kay famously described technology 'as anything that was invented after you were born' " This is why new soccer mom's can fret about their kids texting all day, but don't notice that they themselves used to chill on the Princess phone for hours, writes Dyer. Bingo. Older technologies fade into the environment and don't seem so techy to us. We're surrounded by examples.

Why is this obvious point so often missed?

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