Eric Busby · Theology of Technology: A Chief Tekne Officer's Take on the Dangers of Efficiency, Art vs Artifice in Artifice-ial Intelligence, Human Being vs. Human Doing

I sat down with my friend Eric Busby, a man who started college at sixteen by arguing with his philosophy professor and spent the next forty years becoming a Chief Tekne Officer. We traced technology back to its root, techne logos, the rational language of art, and followed that thread all the way to the AI convergence, the one button left on the internet, and the only two things any of us take with us.The big questions:• What if efficiency has quietly become an entity that governs us, instead of the other way around?• What do you buy with the Earth money before it stops being worth anything?• What is left when the algorithm catches everything humans have ever made?• How does a hyperachiever quiet the very mind that built his success?• When the rug gets pulled for 350 million people at once, what actually endures?What you'll hear:• Techne logos broken open: technology as the rational language of art, and why technique runs through music, martial arts, and accounting alike• Jacques Ellul's warning that efficiency governs us and we work for it• Os Guinness in a California truck, answering "does it all come down to violence?"• The Nashville ice storm, day three, when the veil came off and people became who they really were• The Body Keeps the Score, the knot held for 50 years, and saying goodbye to his dad on the massage table• Reassigning the hyperachiever instead of firing him• Name target marketing, the squirrel out the window, and how AdCritter got its name• Southern Baptist yoga, and why it lives under the first commandment• Ham radio, the weekly net, and why black belt is white belt under pressurePull quotes:"And efficiency becomes this entity all on its own that starts to want to control everything.""Our character and our relationships. Everything else is not important.""I have enough faith to believe in God. I don't have enough faith to think that I know that he's not real.""Black belt is white belt, applied under pressure.""There's often one correct way to hit a bullseye and 10,000 ways to miss."Chapters:0:00 The Love of Wisdom · 0:30 Techne Logos: The Rational Language of Art · 2:30 Efficiency as Its Own Entity · 4:00 Os Guinness and the Question of Violence · 9:00 The One Button Left · 11:30 The Ice Storm, Day Three · 15:30 What Do You Deserve? · 18:30 The Body Keeps the Score · 21:00 Saying Goodbye to Dad on the Table · 30:30 Name Target Marketing and the Squirrel · 45:30 Southern Baptist Yoga · 61:00 What Endures: Character and Relationships · 66:00 Ham Radio and the Weekly Net · 71:30 The Word to the One in PainAbout:Eric Busby is the Co-Founder, President, and CTO of AdCritter, an AI-first DSP. He is also a former CIO of Saddleback Church, a commercial photographer, a licensed ham radio operator who has contacted every continent from his home, a beekeeper, the catcher for a vintage base ball team, and a yoga practitioner. He began studying Jacques Ellul's philosophy and theology of technology as an undergraduate in the 1980s.Ernest Chapman is a brand therapist, composer, and recovering broke wizard. He is the author of Aligned to the Divine Design, and the host of The Divine Design Podcast, conversations with healers, heretics, and harbingers across five domains: divinity, civilization, purpose, family, and self-optimization.Book & Podcast: alignedtothedivinedesign.comIf this one lands, share it with one person who needs to hear it.