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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

Š Konstantin Sutyagin/Shutterstock

Creation

Š Konstantin Sutyagin/Shutterstock

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

Š Jim LePage Art & Design

Creation

Fall

Redemption

© Jim LePage Art & Design © Paramount Pictures

Creation

Fall

Redemption

© Jim LePage Art & Design © Paramount Pictures

Creation

Fall

Redemption

1. Have no other Gods before me 2. Don’t make graven images of me

© Jim LePage Art & Design © Paramount Pictures

Creation

Fall

Redemption

tektōn

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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

Thank You http://j.hn/ @johndyer jdyer@dts.edu

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