Future Trends

Predictions for the year in tech, held with sober hope rather than hype or doom.

Andrew and Joel trade summer reading, seven books that shaped how they build. Range and kind vs wicked worlds, The Lean Startup on testing a hypothesis instead of debating it, Culture Making on why creating beats critiquing, and the evolutionary neuroscience the frontier labs are mining for the next breakthrough.

Automation, vocation, and whether God cares if a machine takes your work.

A constructive case for using AI well in Christian life and work.

A major Meta lawsuit and what it signals for platforms, youth, and accountability.

John Knox on the state of the faith-and-technology conversation right now.

A grab-bag on AI in warfare, kids and tech, and a wild news cycle.

Autonomous agents are here; the hosts on agency, responsibility, and concern.

A year-end map of where AI actually landed in 2025.

Is the AI boom a bubble or a turning point? The hosts weigh the signals.

Reading the latest gentle-singularity optimism against a Christian account of human nature.

The hosts poke at tech cliches and the lazy takes that pass for wisdom about technology.

Brad Littlejohn and Clare Morell on policy, parenting, and a positive vision for family tech.

Builders talk shop on working in tech across a shifting political and economic border.

The hosts lay out what they expect from AI, platforms, and the church's tech in the year ahead.

After the 2024 election, the hosts on Christians, technology, and political hope in a platformed age.

Reading Dario Amodei's "Machines of Loving Grace" essay: the optimistic AI future, weighed against a Christian anthropology.

Meta's Orion glasses point past AR to a deeper bet about mediated reality, and what motivates the company building it.

Section 230, algorithms, and regulation: the hosts unpack a shift that could remake how social platforms work.

Adam Graber on predictions, groupthink, and disability tech as a Trojan horse for the rest of us.

Kevin Tuer makes the case for designing ethics into AI from the start, and for innovation as a form of stewardship.

Devin, Sora, and a flood of releases: the hosts try to make sense of an AI moment moving faster than anyone can track.

From CES 2024, the hosts look past chatbots to embodied AI and robots, and ask how Jesus would meet a machine with a body.

Seven predictions for the year in tech, held with sober hope rather than hype or doom.

As OpenAI's board drama unfolds, the hosts read accelerationism and caution through a Christian frame.

Apple's Vision Pro promises a new kind of presence. Does spatial computing connect us, or quietly isolate us? A first Christian read.

Humanoid robots are quietly arriving. The hosts on labor, the body, and what it means to love God with our strength when machines have hands.

Should our default be to adopt or to resist? Joel and Andrew disagree, working out what posture Christians should bring to every new tool.

A walk through the gadgets of CES 2023, and a turn toward generosity: what should Christians make of an industry always selling the next new thing?

From Musk's Twitter to the arrival of ChatGPT, the hosts look back at the five tech stories that defined 2022, and why they still matter.

An introduction to AI for Christians: how it actually works, where the hype outruns reality, and the questions personhood raises for machines that 'think.'