http://embracedbyhim.org/holy-inefficiency-in-a-digital-age/
<"Today's cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human existence, [Tim] Wu wrote in "The New York Times." Making things easier isn't wicked, Wu argues; but the promise of "smooth, effortless efficiency... threatens to erase the sort of struggles and challenges that help give meaning to life. Created to free us, it can become a constraint on what we are willing to do, and thus in a subtle way it can enslave us..."
...The living, breathing Body of Christ--the church in all its forms--is uniquely poised to offer what the world is desperately searching for: embodied presence, true vulnerability, inconvenient service, utter acceptance, abundant love.
It is here, in this efficiency-obsessed age, that Christians are called to lead. Because we believe we are embodied beings made by a holy God. We believe we were created for relationship and meaningful work that provides for families, serves our neighbors, and engages our bodies and creative faculties. We believe we are called to carry burdens--good burdens, responsibilities that tether us to people and the physical world, to time and place, to humanity. >
I love technology and the way it has freed me to have more leisure time; but it has also displaced a certain sort of person from honorable employment, and, in the case of Amazon, consigned others to jobs that are neither mentally stimulating or creative. I think we need to be wise about technology, and not automatically assume that it is always going to make us better as human beings.
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