We often imagine technology as a tool, external to us, that we can use for good or for ill — and so it is, at least in part. Yet increasingly we are discovering the increasing myriad ways our technology uses us, as if we were its tools.  This calls into question the human future as human, demanding we develop a deeper understanding of technology as both the bearer of an interpretation of reality and the possible catalyst of a posthuman fate.

The Saint Benedict Institute will host speaker Dr. Michael Hanby on “Technology and Truth,” on Monday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. in Winants Auditorium at Hope College. The talk will discuss technology as a worldview as opposed to a neutral tool.

The public is invited. Admission is free.

Dr. Hanby is an associate professor of religion and philosophy of science at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of No God, No Science?: Theology, Cosmology, Biology and Augustine and Modernity, and he has been a contributor to numerous edited volumes and publications, including Communio, First Things, New Polity, The Political Science Reviewer, Modern Theology, Pro Ecclesia, Theology Today, and The Wall Street Journal. Dr. Hanby lectures widely at universities and in other settings, including the United Nations, and has been hosted by numerous podcasts.

The Saint Benedict Institute is a ministry of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Holland. It seeks to promote and nurture intellectual work done from the heart of the Catholic Church, to foster an ecumenical community of Catholic Christians and friends committed to the renewal of culture, and to aid in the formation of intellectually and spiritually mature Christians by making available the riches of the Catholic tradition to Hope College and the wider community. More information can be found at saintbenedictinstitute.org.

Winants Auditorium in Graves Hall is located at 263 College Avenue, between 10th and 13th Streets.