Will technology usher in new tools to enhance freedom or create ways to diminish privacy and liberty? In this episode we discuss the potential for technology in both directions as well as ways it’s already being used around the world to corral citizens. How will Christians respond in a world where technology enables diminishing privacy and greater centralized control? What choices can we make now, before technology is implemented that way? ----more---- Topics: Technology and access to information Technology and freedom of expression Data mining and social prediction http://www.researchcareer.com.au/archived-news/big-data-could-predict-protests Artificial Intelligence and Policing https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-42248056/in-your-face-china-s-all-seeing-state Employment and Privacy China’s Social Credit System https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10S Who is teaching AI ethics? The cost of utopianism The complexity of Christian attitudes toward government and authority Discernment, forgiveness, and mercy in a world without privacy Looking Ahead: R.I.PE. Project and giant plants!: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/eaat9077 Passages Reference: Mark 12:13-17 Romans 13:1-7 Daniel 7   Facebook: fb.me/SGSTPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/SGSTPodcast   Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ ) “For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. ( https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/ )