![]() Yet the suspicion that our tools are false gods who will betray our trust leads us to fear. If technology is about our own resourcefulness to increase our own power in achieving our own ends, then it is no wonder it tempts us to pride. Into the valley descends a mere boy with a mere slingshot, controlled by neither pride or fear, but filled with hope and trust in God: “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts” (v45). As Goliath shouts his proud challenge, Saul and all Israel were “dismayed and greatly afraid” (v11, repeated in v24). We can see pride and fear clearly at each side of a valley in 1 Samuel 17. Technology thus stirs two emotions in us: pride and fear. Brian Arthur notes in The Nature of Technology that we put our hope in technology, yet we mistrust it. ![]()
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