Response — Linda Markert and Biotechnology
I cannot analyze Linda Markert’s position regarding biotechnology, xeno-transplantation, or cloning because, as this text is a chapter from a textbook, she has accordingly hedged her comments and posited a … Continue reading
Response — Ray Kurtzweil’s Singularity
Ray Kurzweil is a visionary. From a young age in the 60s, his work has pushed the limits of technological progress, bringing reading to the blind and music to … Continue reading
Film Analysis — The Gods Must Be Crazy
At first glance, “The Gods Must Be Crazy” is an innocent comedy, full of guiltless slapstick and overtly-prolonged gags. Billed as “an epic comedy of absurd proportions,” it has become … Continue reading
John Naisbitt– “Technology as Currency,” High Tech, High Touch
In “Technology is the Currency of our Lives,” found in High Tech, High Touch, published in 1999, the author John Naisbitt discusses a familiar topic, but it in an interesting … Continue reading
Critical Analysis– Lelia Green’s “What Fuels Technology Change?”
Asking whether technology is a neutral agent in societal change naturally presupposes that technology is in itself the agent of that change. Further, asking whether it is technological or social … Continue reading
As it was in the Beginning, So shall it be in the End– Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” the Holy Bible says, “the earth was without form, and void.”[Genesis, 1:1-2a, NKJV.] Here, science and theology seem to agree, … Continue reading
