Links to resources on Christianity and technology

General

Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (UT)
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology (UT)
Society, Religion and Technology Project (Church of Scotland)
Faith, Science and Technology (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Science and Christian Faith: Technoculture and the Future (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary)
Institute for Religion, Technology and Culture
Science, Technology and Society (NC State)
Extensive list of on-line resources (Gordon Ziniewicz, Loyola College)
Resources on technology and society (Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver)
The Center for the Study of Technology and Society
List of essays on technology and culture (Frank Edler, Metropolitan Community College)
Bibliography of recent articles and books (Stephen Garner, Bible College of New Zealand)
Timeline for biotechnology
Speculative timeline for future technological advances

Journals

Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology
Ends and Means, Aberdeen University's journal of philosophy and technology
Technology in Society
Wired magazine, the definitive cultural commentary on technology, with a surprising number of articles relating technology to religion

Online videos, animation and other media activism sites

The Meatrix, a flash animation about factory farms
Of Cabbages and Kings, a comic book about GMOs
"DNA Interactive," an interactive learning module
The Canadian campaign to label Genetically Engineered Foods
Human Germline Engineering site with links to video news and lectures
Review and clips from "McLuhan's Wake," a National Film Board documentary
The Game of Life, a mathematical experiment in 'artificial life' (cellular automata)

Blogs

Bruce Sterling, Wired columnist
The editors' blog for The American Journal of Bioethics
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (transhumanists)

Articles to be read for class

Daryl Culp, "Notes on faith and technology"
Extropian Principles 3.11, section 4, “Intelligent Technology”
Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”
Jacques Ellul (excerpt from The Technological Society)
Hubert L. Dreyfus, "Highway Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology"
Sherry Turkle, "Cuddling up to Cyborg Babies"
Kevin Kelly, "Nerd Theology"
Willem Drees, "Playing God? Yes!" Zygon 37:3 (Sept. 2002)
Frances Fukuyama, "A Tale of Two Dystopias" in Our Posthuman Future
Sondra Wheeler, "Making Babies"
Ronald Bailey and Dinesh D’Souza, “Our Biotech Future”
Clive Thompson, "How to Farm Stem Cells Without Losing Your Soul"
Wendell Berry, “Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer”
Lorne Dawson, "Doing Religion in Cyberspace: The Promise and the Perils"
Doug Groothuis, “Ode to the Book”
Douglas Groothuis, "The Book, the Screen, and the Soul," Excerpted from The Soul in Cyberspace
David Noble, “The Automation of Higher Education”
Miriam Schulman, "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?"
Eric Schlosser, "Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good"
Canadian Council of Churches, “Life: Patent Pending”
C. Christopher Hook, "The Technosapiens are coming"
Psalm 23 for programmers

other articles

Ann Foerst, "Robot: Child of God"
UNESCO, "Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights"
Egbert Schuurman, "The ethics of technology: technological worldview, pictures, motives values and norms"
Bill Joy, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"
Margaret R. McLean, "A Framework for Thinking Ethically About Human Biotechnology"
Pontifical Academy for Life, "Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Thereapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Robin K. Sterns, "Double or Nothing"
President George W. Bush, "Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research"
Gilbert Meilaender, "Begetting and Cloning"
Frederick Ferre, "On Replicating Persons: Ethics and the Technology of Cloning"
Society, Religion and Technology Project, “Should We Clone Humans?”
Brent Waters, “Designer Destiny: Parenthood at the Genetic Crossroads”
“European Parliament Wants Total Ban on Human Cloning,” ZENIT
Albert Borgmann, "Holding on to Reality"
Scott Rodin et al, "Theology of Technology"
Ian Parker, "Absolute Powerpoint: Can a Software Package Edit Your Thoughts?"
Lionel Basney, "The Second Luddite Congress"
Timothy Morgan, “A Cyber-Pilgrim’s Progress”
Umberto Eco on computers
Canadian Council of Churches booklet on patenting life

Novels with religion and technology themes

Science Fiction and Christianity
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Prey
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Walter Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Marge Piercy, He, She and It
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (reviewed by Philip Johnson)

Art with religion, science and technology themes

Salvador Dali, Butterfly Landscape
Frida Kahlo, Henry Ford Hospital
Alexis Rockman, art on genes
Stem cells
Bubble universes
Science clip art
Art and science initiative
Science and art collective
Aesthetics and Computation group (MIT)
Futuristic icons
computerized poetry generator