Leonardo Lugaresi on Televised Masses

Sandro Magister: “To Be Or Not To Be.” The Capital Question of Masses on TV

In Agreement with Robert Spaemann

Communio: A Keyhole for Unbelievers? The Public Character of Cultus and the Broadcasting of the Mass on TV by Robert Spaemann

Sandro Magister: The Pope Against Masses on TV: "This Is Not the Church" and For and Against Mass on TV. A Letter from the United Kingdom

What is the Hope for Humanity? A discussion of technology, politics, and theology

N.T. Wright, Peter Thiel, and moderator Ross Douthat

Jonathan Pageau on Art and Technology

Making Books During the Middle Ages

Voice and Machine

Someone Will Say Its Alien Technology

Yahoo: Mystery of Nazca, Peru's Puquios: Purpose of Ancient Holes Finally Solved By Satellites

The World Beyond Your Head

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
His website.
National Review review
Articles at The New Atlantis

I am sympathetic to the book's thesis but I think it will be bad history, focusing on genealogy or intellectual history too much, rather than the social and cultural causes (the rise of the modern nation-state and industrial capitalism) that is the background of certain thinkers.

Related:




Gary Olmstead, Against Kant and Consumerism
Rod Dreher, Is This Man Dr. Evil

Ordering Love: Liberal Societies and the Memory of God by David L. Schindler (via The Imaginative Conservative)

Related: America's Technological Ontology and the Gift of the Given (pdf)

Exaltation of youth and technological progress

Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor

Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government

Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

TED


How much energy inputs would be required to relocalize energy capture/production in this way?

TED: Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication




TED ever going to have someone talk about using less energy?

TED: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net