I first logged onto the internet in 1998. That year I also stumbled across White supremacist networks, and I backed away from their dumpster fires as quickly as I could. I also kept the lessons they demonstrated for me. Effective organizing requires that people have direct access to information, regardless of their education status, and direct […]
You have to manage your own memories
The Church State Council pulling down its statement of support for California’s Proposition 8 (2008) is no match for me and the Wayback Machine. The statement is a piece of evidence in a series of posts I wrote back in 2013 that contains several links to official Adventist departments, ministries, and advocacy organizations. These links […]
Technology and Hope
This week I met with three engineers based at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s Goddard Center. I’m always made more hopeful by young professionals who love their work, care about the neighborhood beyond their office gate, and are open to sharing with local children the kind of inspiration that motivated each of them to […]
Encyclopedias and a Networked Universe
A few weeks ago over breakfast a friend of mine asked me how it was that I saw the world the way I do: what was it that taught me to see the world in a connected way? I’d never been asked that before and didn’t know what to tell him. Eventually, however, I realized […]
Technology, Authority, & Teaching
From the cobwebbed archives of the web: Battle Beyond the Millenium: the Internet Versus the Teacher Culture: Are You Ready to Rumble? Texas Tech’s Fred Kemp explains why teachers need to lean into technology to support student-centered learning, not pull back fearing a loss of teacher authority. Kemp offered this talk to the Computers and […]
Promise of the Internet
Re: Religion May Not Survive the Internet — Valerie Tarico returns with more End of Religion evangelism. “Religions have spent eons honing defenses that keep outside information away from insiders. The innermost ring wall is a set of certainties and associated emotions like anxiety and disgust and righteous indignation that block curiosity. The outer wall […]
