MIAMI BEACH — Is technology bad for our souls? To address the challenges of the internet age, begin by thinking about what we want out of our time on this earth, author Andy Crouch recently argued.
When Crouch set out to write The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, he decided the book would not be about screen time or limits. “I think parenting by limits is the most depressing possible parenting. … that’s a horrible way to think about parenting,” he said at a November 2017 Faith Angle Forum panel, “Technology: A Threat to the Human Soul?”
Instead, he continued, the book would be about our desires: “What do we really want from our lives and for our children, our own children, our nephews and nieces, grandchildren, neighbors.”
Crouch isn’t a Luddite. He uses and celebrates the ways modern technology has enriched our lives, he said, noting that tech has been especially useful “for harm reduction or harm prevention.”
Rather, the problem with technological devices is in the negative effects that come with the ultimate goal of technology,…
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