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God and the chip : religion and the culture of technology / William A. Stahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stahl, William A. (William Austin)
- Series:
- Editions SR ; v. 24.
- Editions SR ; v. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Computers--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Computers.
- Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Computers--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A. Stahl, is an unacknowledged mysticism, an implicit religion. By not acknowledging this mysticism, we have become critically short of ethical and intellectual resources with which to understand and confront changes brought on by technology.
- Contents:
- A critique of technological mysticism. Technological mysticism ; Prophets of the third age ; The masculine machine ; Venerating the black box ; Faust's bargain
- Redemptive technology. Two philosophers and a metallurgist ; Technology in the good society.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-180) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610925131
- 9781554587933
- 155458793X
- 9781280925139
- 1280925132
- 9780889205994
- 088920599X
- OCLC:
- 753479594
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