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Alan Noble, Strawberry Shortcake, and technological determinism

Aug 1, 2022

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Hey readers, a couple of weeks ago, I shared some reading from Andy Crouch’s The Life We’re Looking For, and how that influenced the way I think about how to use technology. You can read that post here:

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In The Life We’re Looking For, Andy Crouch outlines a couple of “promises” that “every technical advance in human history has been borne on the wings of…”: 1. "Now you'll be able to…" – The promise of expanding human experience and capacity in some way. You might not have studied piano as a child, the player-piano salesmen would say, but "now you'll be a…

a year ago · Alex Reynolds

This week, I want to share a post along the same lines from Alan Noble’s recently started Substack. I thought it was such a great walk through these top…

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