Using Wisdom Wisely
How can theological education use the new technologies wisely?
On the internet every voice can speak, and, every voice can be heard, so the the new adventurer can tell his or her story creating an imagined world for the listener. The stories can be available to anyone who wants to search it out intentionally or not.
What does this create? Perhaps a world absent of one to one relationships, a world that makes us who we are (warts and all). I think it is this immediate world of reality that the wisdom and knowledge of God can be known to us.
Information technology deals with meaningful human existence - where we create community, and sustain relationships. Therefore it is important we use IT wisely and with wisdom.
2 Comments:
A'm amazed at your search for wisdom. Believe it or not, the weather today made the pastor go hunting (ask me about this next time I write... if I do). I guess in the age of digital culture, everyone going digital, thinking digital, sleeping digital and maybe eating digital, my concern is WILL CHRISTIANS PLEASE STAND UP!
Pray tell me what is a
Christian? Oh you mean the people who stand on the corners waving their their flags at George Bush, calling out "God is on our side"
About going digital I suppose digital technology is a bit like "nowness." Nowness is tainted by the need to accomplish something to stay in control.
Bit like films, they can be balanced or imbalanced, for instance if a picture is excessively horizontal. excessively temporal it may succeed in being seductive and absorbing. On the other hand it could be boring.
Ooh I don't want to sleep digital - right now dreams are free.
Eating digital! that could help the calorie intake.
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