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This issue of Plough Quarterly explores the effects of technology on human flourishing.

Whether its artificial intelligence, genome editing, Big Tech monopolies, or social mediainduced depression, we live in a world that is being reshaped by technology from the ground up. How do we stay human?

This issue of Plough Quarterly addresses challenges ranging from the lure of transhumanism to the erosion of silence by the smartphone. Technophobia is no answer, our contributors agree, but neither is a refusal to tackle real dangers. They ask: Why not try living without a computer or a television? Why give tablets to children when Steve Jobs refused to give them to his kids? Why write using a keyboard when you could wield a fountain pen?

Technological asceticism of this kind won't solve society-wide dilemmas. But it can help us maintain the spiritual independence needed to respond to them rightly.

Also in this issue: original poetry by Jac

Plough Quarterly No. 15 Staying Human

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      Publisher: Plough Publishing House
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/01/2018
      ISBN13: 9780874860405, 978-0874860405
      ISBN10: 0874860407

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This issue of Plough Quarterly explores the effects of technology on human flourishing.

      Whether its artificial intelligence, genome editing, Big Tech monopolies, or social mediainduced depression, we live in a world that is being reshaped by technology from the ground up. How do we stay human?

      This issue of Plough Quarterly addresses challenges ranging from the lure of transhumanism to the erosion of silence by the smartphone. Technophobia is no answer, our contributors agree, but neither is a refusal to tackle real dangers. They ask: Why not try living without a computer or a television? Why give tablets to children when Steve Jobs refused to give them to his kids? Why write using a keyboard when you could wield a fountain pen?

      Technological asceticism of this kind won't solve society-wide dilemmas. But it can help us maintain the spiritual independence needed to respond to them rightly.

      Also in this issue: original poetry by Jac

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