Tech Reformation

We talk about a really old article about mechanical music.

Links

• The Main Article We Discuss
• Set To Learn (Derek's other podcast)
• Good Memories by Matthew Parker

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Hosts

• Derek Mast
• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley
• Ben Robin
• Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Spoiler Links

These are links, again, from the "Tech News or Naw" section of the show. If you want to play along with that game, definitely don't read them until you've listened to that part. Here's some more text to keep you from actually reading them.

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• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1477302345/qoobo?ref=thanks_link
• https://au.pcmag.com/health-fitness/84805/totos-wellness-toilet-will-analyze-your-poop

We're back! And we're talking about The Social Dilemma!

Links

• The Social Dilemma

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• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
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Hosts

• Derek Mast
• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Spoiler Links

These are links from the "Tech News or Naw" section of the show. If you want to play along with that game, definitely don't read them until you've listened to that part. Here's some more text to keep you from actually reading them.

Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus. Ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequat. Cras mattis iudicium purus sit amet fermentum. Salutantibus vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, nihil urbis vigiliae.

• https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/04/28/purina-creates-vet-billboard-it-actually-needs-dogs-pee
• https://au.pcmag.com/airthings-wave/65128/charmins-toilet-tech-in-the-running-for-weirdest-ces-gadgets

Should you opt-in to your country’s contact tracing apps and features?

Links

• Australia has COVIDSafe. Here is how other countries are using contact tracing apps in the fight against coronavirus - ABC News
• Contact Tracing

Ways to Contact Us

Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com

Visit our website to search for past shows and topics

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Hosts

David Mikucki

Craig Elliss

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Coronavirus, canceling church, and tips for some live-streaming your service for sick people on a budget.

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Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com

Visit our website to search for past shows and topics

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Hosts

David Mikucki

Craig Elliss

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

This is a bittersweet episode. A milestone, a transition, and a new path forward. Plus some Google Feud thrown in for good measure.

Links

• Verge Article
• Twitter Thread

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• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
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Hosts

• Derek Mast
• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Tank gets a new person and Craig gets a new Light Phone. The question is, does the title refer to the person or the phone? Listen to find out.

Links

• The Light Phone

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Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

A pretty meandering discussion about Photoshop for iPad, clarity around expectations in software, and how modern development tools and libraries are making it easy to release feature compete apps that compete with companies who've been around for decades.

Links

• Photoshop for iPad is Getting Terrible Early Reviews

Ways to Contact Us

Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com

Visit our website to search for past shows and topics

Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

David Mikucki
Joe Carter
Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Craig and David didn't have a topic so they talk about iPhones, photography, the new MacBooks, creepy voice assistants, and—of course—instruments in worship. They’re technically technology, right?

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• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com

• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics

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Hosts

• David Mikucki

• Craig Elliss

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Let’s talk about Salesforce, the 1-1-1 pledge, and vocation.

Links

• Pledge 1% - Salesforce.org
• Marc Benioff will discuss building a socially responsible and successful startup at TechCrunch Disrupt – TechCrunch
• Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change - Salesforce.com
• Marc Benioff
• 30 Inspiring Mission Statements of Startup Companies That Went on to Earn a Billion Dollars
• Relight App
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement

Ways to Contact Us

Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com

Visit our website to search for past shows and topics

Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

David Mikucki

Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Let's talk about online-offline balance so we can stop screaming at each other like modems.

Links

• Constantly (Dis)connected: How Online Habits Form Us
• How the internet is weakening our language : Recovering a rich vocabulary for a deeper knowledge of God
• Relight – A Reformed Theology and Bible Study Web App
• Lightest Form of Flogging episode that David mentioned

Ways to Contact Us

Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com

Visit our website to search for past shows and topics

Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

David Mikucki

Craig Elliss

Ryan Tankersley

Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Dadgum Milleniums take a lot of photos of their kids—a lot. What are the effects of that and what are some ways to keep kids from thinking they’re the next Paris Hilton?

Probably the best part about this episode is that when Tank finally remembers to hit record, his recording was set up to use his internal mic instead of his main mic, so David’s Skype track actually still sounds better. #professionals

Links

• Do Parents Today Take Too Many Photos Of Their Kids?

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com

• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics

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Hosts

• David Mikucki

• Craig Elliss

• Ryan Tankersley

Review us on Apple Podcasts and recommend us on Overcast, or even better - share Tech Reformation with a friend!

Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Links

• Here’s everything Apple announced today at the iPhone 11 event
• Review: The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 do Disneyland after dark
• Apple isn’t even trying anymore to keep its unreleased AR headset a secret
• Apple seeks patent on retinal hologram projectors for AR glasses
• Apple Glasses: Apple's Secret Work on Virtual and Augmented Reality

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com

• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics

• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki

• Craig Elliss

• Ryan Tankersley

• Joe Carter

Review us on Apple Podcasts and recommend us on Overcast, or even better - share Tech Reformation with a friend!

Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Are Christians giving Amazon too much power over Christian publishing?

Links

• The Power Over Christian Publishing We've Given To Amazon - Tim Challies

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Let's talk about a wildly unsourced and unconfirmed rumor about Apple putting rainbows on stuff.

Links

Apple's Rainbow Logo May Return to Some New Products as Early as This Year

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Space: the final frontier. These are the discussions of the Tech Reformation. Its continuing mission to explore strange new topics, to seek out new tech, and new conversations—to boldly introduce the world of tech to the worldview of Christianity.

Links

• WHY STOWAWAY CREATURES ON THE MOON CONFOUND INTERNATIONAL SPACE LAW
• 100 weird objects sent into space
• How the Kessler Syndrome can end all space exploration and destroy modern life
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

Review us on Apple Podcasts and recommend us on Overcast, or even better - share Tech Reformation with a friend!

Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Let's talk about Slack and improving the community experience.

Links

• What's Slack Doing With Your Data?
• Weird Youtube video of a man punching a kangaroo

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Instagram is testing some changes to how it displays “likes.” Let’s discuss.

Links

• Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts – TechCrunch

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

Review us on Apple Podcasts and recommend us on Overcast, or even better - share Tech Reformation with a friend!

Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

How can you monetize your app/web app/website/service thing ethically?

Links

Relight: David’s Web App (A Work in Progress)
Under the Radar

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
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Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

What the heck is transhumanism? And what's a Christian transhumanist?

Links

• Unbelievable? Should Christians embrace Transhumanism? Micah Redding vs Nigel Cameron
• Transhumanism Is Tempting—Until You Remember Inspector Gadget
• Transhumanism And The Future Of Humanity: 7 Ways The World Will Change By 2030
• Episode 26: CRISPR Theology w/ Alex Humphrey

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

People are boycotting Netflix because Netflix is boycotting Georgia.

Links

• Christian Boycott Research Page
• Christians Need to Stop Boycotting Stuff | RELEVANT Magazine
• Should Christians Boycott Starbucks? - Russell Moore
• Updated Boycott List Identifies Corporate Supporters of Planned Parenthood - Christian Newswire
• Can Christians 'Do Business' with the World? by Robert Rothwell
• Amazon warehouse workers in Minnesota plan to strike on Prime Day over labor practices – TechCrunch

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

Review us on Apple Podcasts and recommend us on Overcast, or even better - share Tech Reformation with a friend!

Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!