Matt Ketcham led the discussion with questions about the moral, culture and philosophical implications of technology.
First, we summarized the ending which was quite the wild ride and asked the question of how evil enters into a world after 250 years if it starts with 60 people. How soon would email enter
Massachusetts Bay colony was brought up.
Amish following with their forefathers did and not really having logical/philosophical justification for it.
Zeb and Ian discussed the technology of the Book and what it did at the time of the reformation.
Two interesting related articles.
John Von Neumann
https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf
Wendell Berry
http://tipiglen.co.uk/berrynot.html
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