The religion of technology has particularly failed to improve the status of women. These elements, however, are really not presented thematically in the copious historical review. Except for his treatment of Bellamy, Noble does not explicitly develop to any great extent the point of his conclusion, which is thus a postscript. The points on women are developed only as an appendix. Further, the relationship between religion and technology may have become progressively less exclusive.
Technology arises also in non-Western religious environments.
It is not a fundamentalist Christian thing, nor even a religious thing, nor a Western thing anymore. China, Russia, and others have become big technological players without this same element of religious transcendence as a central factor. Noble tells us that there are those for whom the religious impulse is unconscious and obscured by secularized vocabulary. As for spiritual vocabulary, eloquence by prominent people does not necessarily identify the true driving forces behind the multitude of those contributing to breakthroughs and their subsequent development. Secularism has not totally replaced religion, but in large and significant sectors of society and the intellectual community it has.