Tag: technology

Alexa is no doubt low-hanging fruit for the readers of Front Porch Republic. It is a place-contaminating, unlimited tyrant. If you've purchased one, watch out. When the lights start pulsing and your smart speaker starts shrieking, it will be too late. The peloton of drone-wraiths will be only seconds away.

We don’t have to escape to a new and better location with more perfect neighbors. We need to lovingly attend to the ones we have.

Our educational approach should include the validation of physicality, the imitation of the master, and the celebration of tradition.

In my efforts to point people to various methodologies of eco-agriculture I often encounter those who dispute these approaches. One of the frequent refrains...

The arguments that Deneen and Shatzer advance are really two sides of the same coin; as one interpreter of Marshall McLuhan put it, “We make our tools, and then our tools make us.”

As is so often the case when new technology promises to correct the errors of human fallibility, robo-umps could be bad for everyone involved.

In Part 1, I outlined the basic difference between counting and measuring and gave some examples of how data is not always objectively derived....

In a recent essay for Christianity Today, “Do All Plants Go to Heaven?,” Abigail Murrish speculates that GMOs might be present in the New...

Editor's Note: Matt's piece kicks off a mini-symposium on the question of whether localists should use social media, and if so, how. As a...

Last fall Alan Jacobs published a slim book with a bold title: How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. Jacobs...