Flutterby™! : Cyber-luddite

As many of you know, I've been undertaking a daring journey lately. I no longer carry a cell phone. I check email about once a day. I spend hours at local coffee shops - without a laptop. I read paper books and spend countless hours working math problems with pencil and paper (btw, I've always hated mechanical pencils). I try to walk whenever possible and I drive a vehicle that'll survive a blast from an EM-pulse weapon (and one that I've had the engine completely apart).

This weekend, at the tail-end of my Spring Break, I attended the Southeastern Commision for the Study of Religion partly to hear Dr. Ralph Hood talk about snake handlers and partly to see what the session titled God is One: Mathematics, Kabbalah and Zero was about. As one would expect, the majority of the conference was Christian Bible scholars ruminating over this verse or that of the Bible - but a couple of the tracts were focused on decidedly no-Christian meanderings of thought. While there I picked up a copy of Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age and have been plowing my way through the sermon. Much of it sounds like the normal Xtian preaching about pagans lacking morals - but it is well researched and footnoted. And may serve as a nice starting point to further explore the issues concerning a technology-oriented society...