In the midst of my MA study leave, I am pondering this famous old parable and its implications for the digital age. “Now the king of all Egypt at that time was Thamus… To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians… When it came [...]
It was a great pleasure to attend the Inauguration and Enthronement of Bishop James Langstaff today as the new diocesan Bishop of Rochester. As I’ve said before on this blog, I don’t know a great deal about +James but the early signs have been very encouraging. He’s already done enough to convince me this is [...]
Amongst all that I am supposed to do as an ordained minister is the fact that in my ordination I made a vow to be a good student of all that will deepen my faith and fit me to bear witness to the truth of the gospel. I am also a curate and therefore still [...]
As part of my dissertation work, I have come across an extremely interesting pamphlet called The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward Tufte. Tufte is Professor Emeritus at Yale and he is something of a guru, it seems, on statistical evidence, analytical design and interface design. In the extremely readable pamphlet, Tufte eviscerates the use [...]
I’m less in touch with the bleeding edge of technology than I once was (and I was never that bleeding edge at the best of times) but I was interested to hear the news that those clever technology geeks are working on putting digital projection equipment into mobile phones. There’s some very obvious business applications [...]
Rob Ryan alerted me to this post by Matt Rees about ‘technology and presence’ featuring a fantastic photo of Barack Obama and his good lady surrounded by a sea of mobile phone screens lit-up while they all try and photograph the moment. It’s an interesting question as to when technology gets in the way of [...]
Hands-free worship explores the influence of projection technology on worship. We shape our technology but is it shaping us?
