Thinking Christianly about Technology and Cybersecurity John Dyer http://j.hn/ @johndyer
What is “Technology�? Technology is anything invented after you were born.
Alan Kay, inventor of the mouse
Proof Texts
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12
The Biblical Story
Š Chris Harrison
Creation
Š NASA, Jeff Hester, and Paul Scowen
Creation
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Creation
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Creation
man
男
woman
女 © Konstantin Sutyagin/Shutterstock
Creation
main( ) { printf("hello world"); let light = true; } Š Konstantin Sutyagin/Shutterstock
Creation
Fall
Š Apple
Creation
Fall
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Creation
Fall
Redemption
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Creation
Fall
Redemption
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Creation
Fall
Redemption
1. Have no other Gods before me 2. Don’t make graven images of me
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Creation
Fall
Redemption
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Creation
Fall
Redemption
Restoration
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God‌ Revelation 21:1-2
Creation
Fall
Redemption
Restoration
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Isaiah 2:4
“We're going to become increasingly non-biological to the point where the non-biological part dominates and the biological part is not important any more.�
Raymond Kurzweil
So ‌ just use technology for good not evil, right?
Is Technology “Neutral”? Neutral
Good Use
Building a Church
Bad Use
Axe Murdering
Is Technology “Neutral”?
Repetition = Change
Longer, leaner legs for running
Bigger, stronger legs for lifting
paper books Homer - Iliad
168,599
Plato - Apology
11,427
Aristotle - Ethics
85,103
Old Testament
593,493
New Testament
181,253
Augustine - Confessions
137,505
Shakespeare - Hamlet
30,066
Melville - Moby Dick
210,997
Dostoevsky - Brothers K
349,272
Faulkner - Sound & Fury
96,709
1,864,469
3 x Day 30 x Friends 60 x Words 365 x Day = 1,971,000
I am awesum at PowerPoint Really and truly awesome
The boys are hungry
Ecology of Technology
What a Medium Does to Society Can Be As Important As What Society Does with the Medium
Q&A
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