Technology Happens
Jeanette Randolph Rollins
October 1, 1996
"Technology happens,' one ironic soul dubbed this issue. The explosion of technology in our lifetimes should rightly inspire ambivalence among Christians. This rq takes up both the promise and the hazards wrought by contemporary technologies. This issue we explore new technological avenues for imaginative expression—in the form of Myst and RQ's new design, for example—and the groundbreaking implications of the new communications technologies for the work of Christian mission in hitherto unevangelized (if we don't count Coca-Cola) parts of the world. The magazine in your hands is itself a child of the new communications technologies: headquartered in Princeton; edited in New Orleans in consultation with editorial board members across the continent and even the Atlantic; designed and laid out in Virginia and Florida; and transferred by internet for printing in Maryland. It has been a pleasure in my time as editor to meet and work via e-mail with many of rq's board members, writers, and readers. (Now we see electronically; one day, by the grace of God, face to face!) Medical advances, many in our own lifetimes, have transformed our relation to time and the way we think about the future. Struggling uncertainly through our twenties, for example (which now one can even do online), is a luxury afforded by our expectation of long life. The specter of polio that haunted our parents and grandparents exerts not even the faintest claim on our consciousness. Two hundred years ago—to cite one personally meaningful statistic—no more than half the women in New Orleans lived to see their twentieth birthdays. Many, of course, died in childbirth. As my husband and I await with hope the delivery of our first child in the same ...
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