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I have an entire galaxy of Samsung devices, a smartwatch, earbuds, a phone, a tablet, a Chromebook, a laptop, a monitor, and a television. They have become an extension of who I am. Like other Gen Xers, I witnessed the transformation of human culture as mobile communication knit us together with radio waves cast around the globe. My parents used to tell me they remember life before television and microwaves. Well, I remember life before electronic devices.

In his 1968 book, Integral Humanism, Jacques Maritain refers to the human person as a “universe of spiritual nature endowed with freedom of choice,” as an independent whole unto himself in the greater physical universe (9). He wrote about the tragedy of humanism for failing to acknowledge the human as something more than a body. He also described an anthropological problem in medieval Christendom. …