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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.
Table of Contents for God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology by William A. Stahl
Introduction
Part I: A Critique of the Technological Mysticism
Chapter 1: Technological Mysticism
Chapter 2: Prophets of the Third Age
Chapter 3: The Masculine Machine
Chapter 4: Venerating the Black Box
Chapter 5: Faust’s Bargain
Part II: Redemptive Technology
Chapter 6: Two Philosophers and a Metallurgist
Chapter 7: Technology in the Good Society
References
Index