As we think about the formative power of online technology in our lives, we must start where all truth starts—with God. One of the reasons so few people can articulate the effects of the online world is that so few people have a baseline standard of human flourishing for comparison. The world is a thoroughly “tech-maximalist” place. As we will see, this is not an accident. Part of the reason is that much of our digital technology was invented according to a logic that sought to help humans transcend their humanness and achieve something more.
