God and the chip
Subtitle: religion and the culture of technology
By: William A. Stahl.
Contributors: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.; Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses.
Series: Editions SR ; 24
Publisher: Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Computers -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Computers -- Social aspects.; Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Technology -- Social aspects.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 167-180) and index.

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