12 ways your phone is changing you

12 ways your phone is changing you

Tony Reinke, 1977-

Book - 2017

Do you control your phone -- or does your phone control you? Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted. Drawing from the insights of numerous thinkers, published studies, and his own research, writer Tony Reinke identifies twelve potent ways our smartphones have changed us -- for good and bad. Reinke calls us to cultivate wise thinking and healthy habits in the digital age, encouraging... us to maximize the many blessings, avoid the various pitfalls, and wisely wield the most powerful gadget of human connection ever unleashed. - Publisher.

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Subjects
Technology > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Smartphones.
Published
Wheaton : Crossway [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Tony Reinke, 1977- (author)
Physical Description
224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781433552434
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: A Little Theology of Technology
  • 1. We Are Addicted to Distraction
  • 2. We Ignore Our Flesh and Blood
  • 3. We Crave Immediate Approval
  • 4. We Lose Our Literacy
  • 5. We Feed on the Produced
  • 6. We Become Like What We "Like"
  • 7. We Get Lonely
  • 8. We Get Comfortable in Secret Vices
  • 9. We Lose Meaning
  • 10. We Fear Missing Out
  • 11. We Become Harsh to One Another
  • 12. We Lose Our Place in Time
  • Conclusion: Living Smartphone Smart
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • General Index
  • Scripture Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Reinke (Newton on the Christian Life), staff writer and researcher for desiringgod.org, presents an informative primer on the effects of technology on Christian smartphone users. Reinke offers Christian readers 12 dynamic chapters specifically laying out the ways smartphones change people from the inside out. The author contends that if you own a smartphone, it is highly likely that you have abused it, as smartphone users check in online an average of once every 4.3 minutes. Reinke uses his apt research skills to point out the problematic issues of idolatrous smart phone usage and then guides readers to think critically about their own habits of engaging others. He recalls a time when he was immersed in something on his own smartphone when he should have been engaging his family and itemizes the problems that began with that moment of distraction. The author delves into such topics as addiction to distraction, craving immediate approval, losing literacy, becoming what one "likes," feeling lonely, and being harsh with one another. Reinke's work is smart, efficient, and effective, laying out the insidious problems that pocket computers can bring into everyday life. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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