Technology – Page 27 – Kester Brewin

A ‘Separate and Bound God’ | The Crisis in Evangelicalism

Jun 11, 2010

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Had a great time at Apple 5 on Wednesday – good crowd of people out to hear Manjit Kumar, author of Quantum talking about The Quantum Cathedral – how the collaborative efforts that went into building the Large Hadron Collider are paralleled only by the immense achievements of the construction of the medieval cathedrals. I’ll be…

Hooked on Gadgets | Surfing the Net or the Net Serfing Us?

Jun 9, 2010

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in Apple, Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Science, Technology, Theology

An excellent article in the New York Times the other day – ‘Hooked on Gadgets and Paying a Mental Price‘ – which explores the mental and relational cost of screen-addiction, plotting the story of one family who are all, in their own way, too hooked on gadgets: Mr. Campbell continues to struggle with the effects…

Let Me Touch Him | 60 Great Album Covers

May 28, 2010

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I’m off to Iona for a week now, so will not be posting much. While I’m away, have a browse of the utterly fabulous ‘60 Awesome Christian Music Album Covers.‘ My two particular favourites: Have a great week. And don’t forget: ‘Other‘ is released next week, and there’s going to be a free-for-all launch do…

SuiciPad | Expensive Machines Made by Cheap People

May 27, 2010

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The iPad goes on sale in the UK tomorrow, and there will doubtless be countless smug faces like the one above, leaving Apple stores with new devices that will enhance their lives and make everything go so smoothly and swimmingly. So spare a thought for the exhausted workers who make these devices for us in…

Cyborgs Catching Colds | Viral Infection | In Praise of Evolution

May 26, 2010

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in Emerging Church, Science, Technology

An interesting story today about a scientist who implanted a microchip in his hand, which he then deliberately infected with a computer virus. He uses the chip to open doors and activate his mobile phone (weirdly, as his biological hand might seem the best tool to do that) but has now shown that his infected…

Twitter Procession

May 20, 2010

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Technology

I’m not normally impressed by Web 2.0 mashups, but there’s something very beguiling about this Twitter procession, something of the human touch in it…HT Jenny Brown. Works best in full screen… click here.

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