5 Big Questions: Technology and Virtue

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

We’re starting 5 Big Questions because we had a really vibrant comment section years ago that has since switched to more personal interactions with you all via email. Though we cherish those interactions, we also wanted to encourage you all to dialog with one another as well in the comments.

So we’re going to try 5 big questions today on technology and virtue. In top-level comments, pick your favorite technology and then answer the questions — hash these out with one another:

What does this technology enhance or intensify or make possible or accelerate?Does this new technology bring back or rescue anything we’ve lost?When pushed to the limits of its potential, how could this tech degrade its users?What is made obsolete or pushed aside by the new technology?What virtues guide you in either the use and adoption or abandonment and dismissal of this technology?

For instance you could start off your comment like:

SOCIAL MEDIA

It enhances and intensifies…It brings back…It degrades us by…It renders ____ obsolete through…I’m guided in my decision to ____ by the virtues….

or… CLONING

It enhances and intensifies…It brings back…It degrades us by…It renders ____ obsolete through…I’m guided in my decision to ____ by the virtues….

Pick a tech and we’ll see you in the comments below \/ \/

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