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)