Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Is Technology Divine?

Neil Postman fifth and final point in his talk "Five Things We Need To Know About Technological Change" is that technology tends to become "mythic," or accepted by the public as a God-given truth. His example is that, if he were to suggest changes to television programming, people would react as though he had suggested that we change when the sun rises. The culmination of this point, at least in my understanding, was the comment that "technology is not part of God’s plan but a product of human creativity and hubris." This conflicts with Brigham Young's statement that "Every discovery in science and art, that is really true and useful to mankind, has been given by direct revelation from God." I feel that God has definitely directed our development technologically for His purposes, if for no other reason than that He created us and gave us our intelligence in the first place.

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