> In fact, if the world is to be saved, it won’t be through human devices.
> Our image of primitive man is that he was a bumbling, grunting idiot.
Since the author is Christian (shown prominently anywhere his name appears), these three sentences make me question what he means by the word 'save.' If he means it in the 'spiritual Christian sense,' then of course no app will do that. And the 'our image' of primitive man seems like the Christian one, influenced by the concept of original sin.
> The world is governed much more by human nature than we’d like to admit, and human nature doesn’t change.
It seems to me that human nature can very much be influenced by technology. Slavery used to be commonplace, with many people (including the strongly religious) having no moral opposition to it. Massive atrocities throughout history have taken place because they were outside the public eye. Hateful words were much easier to speak in the past, before being caught by a recording device was a possibility. The fact that knowledge can now be spread quicker to the rest of the world (something that apps these days can sometimes help with) keeps a lot of this 'human nature' in check.
Just looking at the world today, it's hard to say that technology has not made a significant (and probably net positive) change in how people think and behave.
> In fact, if the world is to be saved, it won’t be through human devices.
> Our image of primitive man is that he was a bumbling, grunting idiot.
Since the author is Christian (shown prominently anywhere his name appears), these three sentences make me question what he means by the word 'save.' If he means it in the 'spiritual Christian sense,' then of course no app will do that. And the 'our image' of primitive man seems like the Christian one, influenced by the concept of original sin.
> The world is governed much more by human nature than we’d like to admit, and human nature doesn’t change.
It seems to me that human nature can very much be influenced by technology. Slavery used to be commonplace, with many people (including the strongly religious) having no moral opposition to it. Massive atrocities throughout history have taken place because they were outside the public eye. Hateful words were much easier to speak in the past, before being caught by a recording device was a possibility. The fact that knowledge can now be spread quicker to the rest of the world (something that apps these days can sometimes help with) keeps a lot of this 'human nature' in check.
Just looking at the world today, it's hard to say that technology has not made a significant (and probably net positive) change in how people think and behave.