AI in the Age of the Metanomic: Behold Ubuntu!
Introduction
This paper is autoethnographic and a reflection on teaching and learning and my own ministry formation. It reflects my personal theology, God-talk, as well as my scholarship in the areas of liberation and womanist theology, African culture and spirituality, critical race theory, and instructional technology.
In the 1950s mainframe computing emerged. In 1974 the personal computer (PC) was released. I was an early adapter/adopter of computer technology: in 1972 my second language for doctoral studies was computer language and by the end of the decade I had begun to develop software to teach in areas of humanities. As a teacher and parent, I was committed to demonstrate the efficacy and value of teaching all children African American and African history, using these new technologies. My software was awarded a Computerworld Smithsonian award.
But it was in my role as a sociologist that I connected some dots about technology, race, and theology.