Techno Theology Barry Taylor, Josef Gustafsson

Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson speak on the nature of technology and about human interaction with it - how we create technology and how technology creates us. As Marshall McLuhan writes: “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

But the episode opens with an intro in which Josef explicate some further thoughts about the opening statement (episode 1) articulated at the European Radical Theology Network gathering in Utrecht, emphasizing the importance of becoming worthy of the event.

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In episode 3 of Techno Theology, Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about the folding of the future and how the power to organize the world has moved from old institutions like parliaments and universities to discrete spaces where the algorithms controlling the flows of information are coded. They also discuss the Internet as a recording machine that stores information and how control over this memory translates to the power to dictate human behavior.

Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about the end times - how the time is short.

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Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about their visit to Utrecht, radical theology, scapegoating, and the motivation behind starting a podcast.