Tag Archive for: Social Change

Generation Alpha Are Becoming Teenagers: A Look Into the Future

As Generation Alpha, born between 2010 and 2024, enter their teenage years, they will become a major force that shapes the future.

Is Your Kettle Killing the Planet?

‘Right To Repair Laws’ are becoming a big thing. Yes, we now require laws to make companies allow you to fix the stuff you own.

Education Has Changed. Here’s How Teachers Can Move With the Tides

Teaching is full of new challenges – but also great opportunities. It just requires creativity and a willingness to move with the tides.

Digital Shoes and Customised Shopping: Tomorrow’s Retail Has Arrived

With the most recent tech now emerging in the world of retail, future shopping will look radically different to what we are used to.

Why ‘AI’ Ain’t so ‘I’

Here’s why one writer is really that worried about Chat GPT: Chatbots can’t appeal to emotions, because it has none.

Questions We’re Not Meant to Ask About Our Secular Culture

Questions our culture struggles to answer – as they raise the uncomfortable idea that the secular view of life just doesn’t fit reality.

The Future of Human-AI Interaction

As artificial intelligence advances in capability, the question arises: how will humans live, work and interact with AI?

We Should Incentivise Child-Bearing, Says Social Scientist Nicholas Eberstadt

Young people are having less or no children, due to a belief that it will hinder their true calling in life. And experts say there is a cost.

How The ‘Prayer of The Authentic Self’ Shows The Religion of our Secular Age

Christian author Brian Rosner’s caricature of the Lord’s Prayer, sums up our culture’s obsession with Authenticity.

‘Video’ Discipleship In a ‘Digital’ Age – Why The Church Needs to Catch Up

The world is discipling us, not on the basis of intellectual argument, but at a deeply subterranean emotional level, writes Stephen McAlpine.

Does Christian Celebrity Need a Cure? – ‘Christianity Today’s’ Katelyn Beaty

US journalist Katelyn Beaty reflects on the Christian celebrity culture origin, Jesus’ relationship to fame and the lost art of contentment.

Wrestling with History in an Age That Disregards it

As a society are we are losing our historical literacy, or our ability to engage in moral reasoning about history?

2022 in Review: New Milestones, and What Broke The Internet

McCrindle reviews the year that was, with social changes, major milestones, and the crazes that ‘broke the internet’.

Understanding Generation Alpha

Within 4 years, Generation Alpha will outnumber the Baby Boomers, and many of them will live to see the 22nd Century.

Todd Sampson Wants Us to Take a Good, Hard Look at the Internet’s Impact on Our Lives

The ad guy from ‘Gruen’ returns with ‘Mirror Mirror’ Season 2, showing us what our online obsession is actually doing to us.

When a Jewish Thought Leader Flies the Flag for Christianity

When a Jewish thought-leader is championing the cause of Christianity, you know there’s got to be good reason. John Anderson catches up with Dennis Prager.

The Metaverse Has Arrived – Here are 4 Places It Will Take Us

We are already seeing the metaverse transform things. From work to play, this immersive version of the internet is engaging users in every sphere of life.

Unpacking The Parent-Teacher Tensions in the Education System

John Anderson is joined by Professor James Tooley for a fascinating conversation about the role of education in the modern age.