Teens, Tech & God

In this episode, we continue the conversation about digital technology themes found in the book “The Digital Invasion” by Dr. Archibald Hart and Dr. Sylvia Hart Frejd. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the digital invasion has reduced our capacity to live a “real life” and has robbed us of true meaning, pleasure, and fulfillment.   Did you know? Here are a few stats from a chart Dr. Hart has compiled and called the Digital Invasion Chart. In 2000, the average person spent 2.7 hours per week online. In 2013, that number jumped to more than 30 hours per week online. In 2000, there were 100 million daily Google searches. In 2013, that number jumped to more than 4.7 billion daily Google searches. In 2000, 14 billion text messages were sent daily. In 2013, more than 188 million text messages were sent daily.   What we talked about Borrowing a page from John Piper’s book, “Don’t Waste Your Life,” what would it look like if we said, “Don’t Waste Your Life on a Virtual Life”? Dr. Frejd wrote: “Don’t let you