Book Reviews
Review: 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by John C Lennox (2020)
John Lennox is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oxford University, and often ventures into the intersection of faith and technology. In this book Lennox offers an overview of AI in order to establish a framework for discussion, then ventures into the promises...
Book Review: Race After Technology Interrogates the Tech World About Structural Racism
First there was SUNY Professor and sociologist Virginia Eubanks’ 2018 ground-breaking book, Automating Inequality, which spotlighted how even well-intentioned technology solutions to complex social needs often only spawn new problems. Now Princeton sociologist Ruha...
Book Review: Three Pieces of Glass: Why We Feel Lonely in a World Mediated by Screens – Eric O. Jacobsen
How might Christians engage and bring hope to a world where we have a loneliness epidemic? Three Pieces of Glass addresses this as a crisis of belonging. As expressed in the iconic show Cheers, “you want to go where everybody knows your name.” The book is laid out in...
If it types like a person and Skypes like a person…A review of William Gibson’s Agency
Everything happens for a reason, of course, but when humans look back on history, they tend to sort events into the inevitable and the arbitrary. It’s easier to fantasize about the latter, and the fantasies that last longest stem from the historical events that feel...
Review – The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
If you have ever wondered how to look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the perspective of Christian faith, The Age of AI is definitely a book you will want to read. AI and Faith Founding Member Jason Thacker takes the reader on a journey filled with Bible...
SANDWORM: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
And the winner by acclamation in the nonfiction ‘Holy Crap! I May Never Be Able To Sleep Again!’ category is Sandworm by Andy Greenberg. And, yes, Greenberg’s tale of cyberwar over the past decade is absolutely that terrifying. Here’s how his book begins: On June 27,...