{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"What we've lost","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2966,"description":"Every technology gives you something. Every technology takes something away. The problem is we're usually so focused on what we gain that we don't notice what we've lost until it's gone.\nJoel and Tim open with new creation theology and the deep physicality of what Christians are actually looking forward to — then trace that thread through rally driving, unwrapping CDs, the washing machine, the microwave, the self-driving car and Zoom meetings that left everyone exhausted for reasons nobody could explain.\nMike Dicker's framework for thinking about technological trade-offs is the practical anchor. Alan Noble's theology of presence is the theological one. And the question underneath all of it: are we trading away what makes us human?\nTimestamps\n00:00 Welcome, rambunctious toddlers and Square One talks on new creation\n02:00 What the age to come actually looks like\n09:00 Rallying, sights, smells and what we miss when it's taken away\n12:00 Not all technology is progress\n14:00 Mike Dicker's framework — enhancement, obsolescence, retrieval and reversal\n20:00 The Spotify trade-off\n23:00 Theology of creation and physicality\n27:00 Alan Noble on presence\n33:00 Yann Martel's bad stories\n36:00 The microwave and the family dinner table\n38:00 The car, the 20-minute circle and the loss of geographic embeddedness\n42:00 Zoom fatigue, pheromones and what we didn't know we were processing in person\n45:00 AI and the wisdom of refusing the easy answer\n47:00 Navigating technology with wisdom\nDiscussed on this episode\nMike Dicker — Navigating Technology\nAlan Noble — Presence in an Age of AI ReproductionAndy Crouch — The Tech-Wise Family\nAndy Crouch — Culture Making\nJohn Dyer — From the Garden to the City\nYann Martel on the How I Write Podcast\nAlan Noble — Disruptive Witness\nSubscribe, leave a review, and send your thoughts to joel@shockabsorber.com.au","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xefvzfzzrkbs1GjU01qCch0kUaJzwBthG2qO_sgqCm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzg4NjYvMTU4NTEz/OTEyOS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}