Technology & how it affects us: this week at Journey

This Sunday at Journey (March 21st) I'll be leading our discussion on Technology in light of our current Lent Journey. I ran across this funny video that illustrates well a point I'd like to make. The point is that technology does affect us. It affects how our brain processes information. I want to look at the difference between different time frames in history such as; before the printing press society was primarily an Oral one. They told stories. Then with the printing press we had a more left brain linear way of learning by words on pages instead of spoken. Now with technology of images we have a whole new way of processing what we see and hear. I like this video because it shows how our brain works differently when different forms of "technology" (or lack thereof) tells us something. Enjoy...



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Also something we will talk about is a recent trend of "unplugging" from all the technology we are constantly around. I like the take on it from this group:



Hopefully watching these will give you a good little start to spark your thinking as we talk about this subject! See you at journey on Sunday at 5:00pm!