How Technology Behaves—Part 1 (Andy Patton)

Many today feel uncertain about how to respond to a changing technological landscape. If neither technophobia nor technophoria are adequate responses, can we chart a middle way? This lecture outlines a few rules for what technology is, how it behaves, what we should do about it, and proposes a response that avoids the double dangers of fear and utopianism. A lecture given by Andy Patton (L'Abri Worker) at English L'Abri on 18 October, 2017. For more information, visit labri.org/england and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.For further reading:What Technology Wants (Kevin Kelly)Understanding Media (Marshall McLuhan)Technopoly (Neil Postman)The Technological Society (Jacques Ellul)The Singularity Is Near (Ray Kurzweil) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit englishlabri.substack.com