Art and technology – what’s the difference?

A few weeks ago I visited the English L’Abri Fellowship, where one of the staff, Andy Patton, was giving the weekly Friday night lecture on the subject of How Technology Behaves. (Hopefully it will be available to listen to online on the L’Abri Ideas Library sometime soon.) It was wide-ranging, fascinating and provocative, but one […]

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Life, Death, Steve Jobs and Success: The Richest Man in the Cemetery?

By any human measure, Steve Jobs’ life was an incredible success. Co-founder of Apple, former owner of Pixar, a visionary who transformed computing, the music industry, mobile phones and much more. And then he died, aged only 56. Jobs was suffering from pancreatic cancer, and his death at such a relatively early age is deeply […]

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Virtual relationships: Facebook as simulacra

There’s an interesting article on The Guardian website about Facebook, in particular the people who run it, and their ideology that drives it. It makes for interesting reading. Talking about Peter Thiel, one of the three board members of Facebook, who is a 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher, it says: His philosophy, […]

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