Apple – Kester Brewin

Apple Watch Out / Watch Out Apple

Mar 9, 2015

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This will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law is to be on your lips. –Exodus 13: 4 After much trailing in the press, and a huge, concerted effort by Apple to woo the fashion industry, today, finally, sees the actual unveiling of the…

A Core Suite of Tools – Is Tech Plateauing?

Jan 29, 2014

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in Blog Posts, Technology

A piece in today’s Independent got me thinking today about the core suite of tools that we might deem are irreducible. The article argues that Apple needs to do again what it did with the iPod, iPhone etc. and create a device that fills a desire we didn’t know we had. I need to think…

‘Death is very likely one of the best inventions of life’

Oct 6, 2011

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in Apple, Technology

I’m aware of the cult of mac dangers of sychophancy today… but also wanted to mark the passing of someone who did have a big impact on who are and how we live today, both positive and negative. This speech, given to Stanford graduates in 2005, is moving and prescient, but what I want to…

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…

New Apple Dates Announced | Thinking Deeply About Technology

Apr 26, 2010

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

Really pleased to announce that we’ve sorted out three new dates for Apple events over the next couple of months. The idea behind Apple is to get people thinking more reflectively about technology – whether that be digital culture or tool-use. Humans are tool-makers, and the technologies we use form us, just as we form…

I(con) of the Month: Apple | Selling Us Our Desires

Mar 2, 2010

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in Arts, Emerging Church, Technology, Theology

Alongside the piece on Alan Turing, I also have another short article in Third Way this month as part of their ‘icon of the month’ series. Following the much-feted launch of the iPad, it’s about Apple. Apple are an increasingly intriguing company. They are a huge multinational – bigger than Sony or Samsung – yet…

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