Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously In the Information Age (Book)
Quentin Schultze, Author.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 2002.

Habits of the High-Tech Heart critiques our culture's tendency towards "informationism." Author Quentin Schultze acts as constructive contrarian, placing the technological worldview (with its practices of efficiency, control, and individualism) under the authority of the Judeo-Christian worldview, (with its practices of virtue, spiritual discipline, and life in the community of faith). His thesis is that advances in technology alone will never guarantee social or moral progress.

Schultze calls upon philosophers, theologians, and authors to bear witness to the ancient virtues that form our moral framework. He challenges the illusion that we control our fate through technology, exhorts us to demonstrate authenticity, and encourages us to respect those who question whether online "community" can ever replace incarnational communion.

In so doing, Schultze draws us back to age-old questions: Where did we come from, where are we going, and what constitutes a good life along the way? What makes an individual or a society virtuous? How do we develop ethical character in ourselves and shape it in our children? Perhaps the best thing about Habits is that it does not present "Twelve Steps to Virtual Sanctity." Instead, Schultze asks hard questions about purpose, meaning, and telos.

Because this book is so important—not so much for its answers, but for the questions it poses—it needs to be widely engaged. It could inform a ministry board’s strategic planning, serve as the catalyst on a congregation's leadership retreat, or form the basis for an adult religious education series.

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