God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology (Editions SR (24))

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. 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. William A. Stahl. Issued As Part Of Upcc Book Collections On Project Muse. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web. "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."--Jacket