How Then Shall We Engineer?
Our guest today has written A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers.
How do we build technology as Christians? What are the principles? Where are the goals the same and where are they different? Derek Schuurman speaks with us today about how we can imitate Jesus in how we build and design tech. This is episode 30 of What Would Jesus Tech.
Derek C. Schuurman is a professor of computer science at Calvin University. Prior to arriving at Calvin, he worked as an engineer and taught for many years at Redeemer University. He is a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation and an Associate Fellow of the Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology. He is the author of Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture and Computer Technology (IVP, 2013) and a co-author of A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers (IVP, 2022).
0:00 - Intro
2:54 - PSpice and Electric Cars
4:48 - Canada vs USA (and Christian education)
7:33 - Egbert Schuurman relation?
8:33 - Design Biblically: Parapets
10:10 - A book FOR engineers and designers? Why?
17:15 - Design Norms - SO KEY!
28:36 - Holistic Worldview With Bavinck and Concern on Agile Development
34:58 - "Redemptive" technology?
36:00 - Applying Design Norms
49:25 - Dreams and Science Fiction
Links
A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers by Derek C. Schuurman
Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture and Computer Technology by Derek C. Schuurman
Christian Worldview by Herman Bavinck
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
You Are What You Love - James K. A. Smith
IEEE - Ethics - https://www.ieee.org/about/ethics/index.html
AIforGood - https://aiforgood.itu.int/
DataForGood - https://dataforgood.ca/
AIandFaith - https://aiandfaith.org/
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Original Music by Abigail Neale
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