By Andy Crouch
Making conscientious offerings approximately know-how in our households is greater than simply utilizing web filters and picking reveal deadlines for our youngsters. it truly is approximately constructing knowledge, personality, and braveness within the means we use electronic media instead of accepting technology's delivers of ease, fast gratification, and the world's wisdom at our fingertips. And it truly is certainly not only concerning the kids.
Drawing on in-depth unique examine from the Barna team, Andy Crouch indicates readers that the alternatives we make approximately know-how have results we may well by no means have thought of. he is taking readers past the common questions of what, the place, and whilst and as an alternative demanding situations them to reply to provocative questions like, Who can we are looking to be as a kin? and How does our use of a specific know-how movement us nearer or farther clear of that goal? an individual who has felt their kin relationships endure or their time slip away amid technology's distractions will locate during this e-book a course ahead to reclaiming their actual existence in an international of units.
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Technology is in its proper place when it helps us acquire skill and mastery of domains that are the glory of human culture (sports, music, the arts, cooking, writing, accounting; the list could go on and on). When we let technology replace the development of skill with passive consumption, something has gone wrong. Technology is in its proper place when it helps us cultivate awe for the created world we are part of and responsible for stewarding (our family spent some joyful and awefilled hours when our children were in middle school watching the beautifully produced BBC series Planet Earth).
In some cultures, marriages are arranged by parents on their children’s behalf. The decision about whom the child should marry is the culminating exercise of understanding the soon-to-be-adult son or daughter, their role in society, and the most fitting mate for their gifts and station in life. It’s the final great exercise of wisdom by parents, summing up years of observing and investing in their children. Arranging a marriage involves a lot more than just knowledge, and it requires a seasoned perspective on life that young adults are thought not yet to have.
It’s out of its proper place when we end up bonding with people at a distance, like celebrities, whom we will never meet. Technology is in its proper place when it starts great conversations. It’s out of its proper place when it prevents us from talking with and listening to one another. Technology is in its proper place when it helps us take care of the fragile bodies we inhabit. It’s out of its proper place when it promises to help us escape the limits and vulnerabilities of those bodies altogether.