Technology and the Human Purpose Brian Wixted and Nick Toews

This season is all about expanding our repertoire of technology stories and metaphors. To that end I am building an A to Z guide of how technology works using metaphors as the focussing device. In this show I cover U-Z.
 
U – Unseeing (what you think you see)
V – Vision and values
W – Waves -diffusion waves
X – X factor the unknown secret sauce + knowledge
Y – well Y actually the trade-off and choices 
Z - Zombie technologies - so what might be the living dead of the tech world
 
The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/
Watch out for more information and connected content with each episode on the blog https://theology-and-technology.blogspot.com/
Some of the work referenced in this epsiode. 
https://www.stanleyjgrenz.com/Books/primer-on-postmodernism.html
https://www.alaindebotton.com/architecture/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2428386-toxic-chemicals-from-car-tyres-can-get-into-soil-and-contaminate-food/
 
 
 

This season is all about expanding our repertoire of technology stories and metaphors. To that end I am building an A to Z guide of how technology works using metaphors as the focussing device. In this show I cover P-T.
 
P – Pillars of the technological world
Q - Queens (Red Queens)
R - Rust
S – Sailing Ship effect
T – The TARDIS Door – technology in Time and Space
 
 
The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/
 
Watch out for more information and connected content with each episode on the blog https://theology-and-technology.blogspot.com/

 
 
I am starting the season with an A to Z guide of how technology works using metaphors and the focussing device. In this show I cover K-O.
K - Kryptonite
L – LEGO – Life is a road
M – Metaphor (bad)
N – Neutral (nah) Nothing is Neutral
O – One ring to rule them all
 The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/
 Watch out for more information and connected content with each episode on the blog https://theology-and-technology.blogspot.com/
 

I am starting the season with an A to Z guide of how technology works using metaphors and the focussing device. In this show I cover F-J.
F is Flux capacitor
G is for gravity
H is for Holy Grail
I is for invention
J is for Jam
 A couple of recent shows worth listening to.
 BBC History Extra podcast : Benjamin Franklin: life of the week. Wherever you get your podcasts.
 BBC IOT Nikola Tesla https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xvhb
 The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/
 Watch out for more information and connected content with each episode on the blog https://theology-and-technology.blogspot.com/

In this episode we really get going with season 4. 
I am starting the season with an A to Z guide of technology through metaphors. In this show I cover A-E.
 The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/ . Watch out for more information and connected content with each episode on the blog https://theology-and-technology.blogspot.com/
 An Awesome introduction to metaphors. Lakoff, G.and Johnson, M. (1980) Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
The book Subtract I mentioned  - https://www.amazon.ca/Subtract-Untapped-Science-Leidy-Klotz/dp/1250249864
 UK population estimates are from Bank of England
 I also mentioned Tom Standage, 2005. A  History of the World in 6 Glasses.

In this episode I introduce plans for season 4, with some small teaser ideas.
 
The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/
Watch out for more information and connected content with each episode on the blog https://theology-and-technology.blogspot.com/