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How Bible Technology 
  Shapes Our Faith
Before you skewer me :)
Bible Tech2009 John Dyer How Bible Technology Shapes Our Faith
Director of Web Development at Dallas Seminary
Bible Tech2009 John Dyer How Bible Technology Shapes Our Faith
http://bible.johndyer.name/
• Technology and Society
• Mediums and Messages
• Bible and Technology
Good
           Bad
         Neutral

“It’s just how you use it”
Phone = neutral

Call your friend = Good
Call in bomb threat = Bad
How many phone numbers do you know by memory?
Phone = morally neutral
Phone ≠ effectively neutral
• Know fewer numbers
  – Effect on the mind
• Constantly accessible
  – Effects on relationships
Cars = neutral

Drive to church = Good
Drive over a person = Bad
Car ≠ neutral

• Blacksmiths
• Requires roads & laws
• Connects/separates
It’s just how you use it

Actually, it’s that we use it

Technology is not neutral
Every medium has the capacity to 
communicate regardless of its 
content.
I am awesum at PowerPoint

     Really and truly awesome
Humble yourself before the 
  Lord and don’t bring 
  attention to yourself.
• Genre
  – Poetry, Narrative, Apocalypse, etc.
• Medium
  – Talking Donkey
  – Burning Bush
  – God in the Flesh
•   What does __ extend?
•   What does __ make obsolete?
•   What does __ retrieve?
•   What does __ reverse into?
2000 B.C. to A.D. 2000 in 25 minutes
Oral         Written         Printed         Digitized
Adam‐1500BC   1500BC‐AD1500   AD1500‐AD1980   AD1980‐present
Oral




       The community is the device
Written




          • More consistent
          • Costly
            – Communal
Written
Written




man         男
woman       女
Written




• From 1500B.C. to A.D.1500
  – Preaching
  – Hearing
  – Memorizing
• Images and Icons
Print




•   Exactness
•   Mass Distribution
•   Reference/Footnotes
•   Chapter and Verse 
    Numbers
Print




• Extends: communication, 
  storage
• Obsoletes: communal/written 
  knowledge, church authority 
• Retrieves: access to truth
• Reverses Into: individualism
Print




• Authority shifted from the 
  Church to the individual
• Personal Bible study, individual 
  faith
• Faith is logical, not emotional
• Think in verses, not books
Print   Digital




• Photograph
• Computer/Internet
Print    Digital




The boys are hungry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinajoebrianwillie/851443071/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdiboy/3299674549/
•   Fast
•   Passive
•   Trivial/Entertaining
•   Story vs. logic
Digital




• Information/Scanning
• Multi‐tasking
• Decontextual Language
Digital




I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of 
overwhelming rapidity of information — and 
especially of stressful information — is in fact 
affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper 
thinking. I still believe that sitting down and 
reading a book is the best way to really learn 
something. And I worry that we’re losing that.

                            Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Digital




• Increased Access
• Cheap/Free
• Links to other 
  information
Digital




• Bible as information
• Bible as search
   – John 3:16 
   – Romans 5:8
• Tools can reverse into 
  crutches, stifle learning
• Reject “The mediums change, but 
  the message is the same.”
• Read scripture aloud, in community, 
  without PowerPoint
• Reduce information, read and 
  memorize large chunks
• Reduce multi‐tasking
• Create alternate experiences of 
  the Bible
• Offer recommendations, not 
  data dumps
• Minimize helps
Email:        johndyer@gmail.com
Code:         johndyer.name
Theo/Tech:    donteatthefruit.com

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