Technology Happens Fall 1996

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My business card claims I am a computer graphic artist. I pay part of my tuition, with myabilitv to "point and click." As such, I may be more technologically savvy than most of my classmates. But through my time on the World Wide Web (and this is true of any medium supported by advertising dollars) I am bombarded by messages that 1 am not powerful enough, smart enough, nor competent enough to be successful. While, theologically, these are all true propositions about myself, the Web does not point me to Jesus and his people as the completion of my inadequacies. Instead I am told what I need is more: more equipment, more knowledge, more consultants. I think the www is wonderful but it must be kept in perspective to life's weightier issues. In view of this constant assault on the senses to (technologically) consume, I offer a sampling of sites that help keep technology in perspective. Consider this a tour along the bike lane of the information superhighway.

Inc. Magazine positioned authors Kurt Vonnegut {Slaughterhouse-Five} and Tom Clancy {The Hunt for Red October) to wrestle over the role of technology in society (www.inc.com/incmagazine/archives/18950631.html). Assignment after visiting this site: In 2oo words or less, answer "How did we wind up in a world where Clancy's view is 'informed' while Vonnegut's is considered 'naive'?" (No fair limiting your answer to "sin.")

A more didactic presentation of technological suspicion can be found by dropping in on pbs's interview with media scholar Neil Postman (best known for his work Amusing Ourselves to Death) discussing topics relating to his Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (web-cr01.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cybcrspace/cyberspace_7-25.html). While I am much more at ...

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