Alan Jacobs contemplates the future of religion and technology:
[E]specially in eastern and southern Africa, the people likely to have cell phones and to seek Internet access are disproportionately likely to be Christians as well. And of those, many will use their phones to get access to the text of Scripture. Curiously, what these tiny screens do to the Bible is almost identical to what the big [projection] screens [in megachurches and elsewhere] do: reduce it to chunks of one or two verses. It is true that the cell phone reader looks down, and looks down upon his own screen, as opposed to the upward-turning congregant sharing one big screen with many others, but the same decontextualizing effect is at work.
(Image: The binary Book of Genesis by Michael Greer)
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