Some see God in the Machine. I can’t help but see a Devil leering back at me. You might say that’s a personal quirk, but it’s every writer’s duty to transfer neuroses to a captive audience. So stay with me here.
For the past three years, my tech coverage has been an elaboration on David Noble’s incisive 1997 book The Religion of Technology. Anything I’ve contributed was a mere update to his core insight—that technology is religious—which Noble himself owed to centuries of previous thinkers. With careful attention to detail, though, he documented the historical evidence, weaving together an incredible story. My job is to add gloomy adjectives and smartass remarks.
This innate spiritual principle is so apparent, you’d think there’s no reason to mention it at all, but it bears repeating. Technology emerged from religious culture, and so naturally, our ideas about technology are essentially religious. In the end, technology itself has become a source of religious authority and an object of religious devotion.
For a recent example, see the AI-generated image of Jesus superimposed on the Shroud of Turin. For many centuries, Catholics revered this sacred object according to their faith. Today, they look upon it through an inverted tech-gnostic lens.
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For the past three years, my tech coverage has been an elaboration on David Noble’s incisive 1997 book The Religion of Technology. Anything I’ve contributed was a mere update to his core insight—that technology is religious—which Noble himself owed to centuries of previous thinkers. With careful attention to detail, though, he documented the historical evidence, weaving together an incredible story. My job is to add gloomy adjectives and smartass remarks.
This innate spiritual principle is so apparent, you’d think there’s no reason to mention it at all, but it bears repeating. Technology emerged from religious culture, and so naturally, our ideas about technology are essentially religious. In the end, technology itself has become a source of religious authority and an object of religious devotion.
For a recent example, see the AI-generated image of Jesus superimposed on the Shroud of Turin. For many centuries, Catholics revered this sacred object according to their faith. Today, they look upon it through an inverted tech-gnostic lens.
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Religion Goes Digital: Playing Gods, Becoming Gods, Building Gods
Humanity's innate desire for religion knows no bounds: indeed, every human on planet Earth will worship something, even the devout atheist. Geneticist and Transhumanist Richard Seed summed up the logical and natural extension about becoming a god in a few short words:
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