DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS, PH.D.

You and I need media to communicate with one another. Speech is one medium to bring thought into oral expression. Writing is another...

Inscripturation is part of being human, or at least it has been for a long time. We inscribe words on bark, papyri, codices, human skin...

I wrote this essay for a dictionary a few years ago. Despite all the changes in the Internet world, I think it is still pertinent. We...

Public radio has a program called Radio Lab. Today, they took up artificial intelligence. But the form of the program is odd,...

As I prowl around bookstores, I find a gaggle of books on managing technology overload. One after another fall of the presses and make...

What difference might a typewriter make on one’s writing style; might it even affect one’s thinking itself? We are what we write, and how...

“If you want to know what water is, don’t ask a fish.” So goes the Chinese proverb. By extension, if you want to understand the strengths...

As the editor of a series of cultural critiques on compelling issues, Os Guinness wanted my work The Soul in Cyberspace to be “a shot...