Description: Further DetailsTitle: Tech AgnosticCondition: NewSubtitle: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a ReformationEAN: 9780262049207ISBN: 9780262049207Publisher: MIT PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/29/2024Description: An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times bestselling author of Good without God. Today s technology has overtaken religion as the chief influence on twenty-first century life and community. In Tech Agnostic, Harvard and MIT s influential humanist chaplain Greg Epstein explores what it means to be a critical thinker with respect to this new faith. Encouraging readers to reassert their common humanity beyond the seductive sheen of 'tech,' this book argues for tech agnosticism not worship as a way of life. Without suggesting we return to a mythical pre-tech past, Epstein shows why we must maintain a freethinking critical perspective toward innovation until it proves itself worthy of our faith or not. Epstein asks probing questions that center humanity at the heart of engineering: Who profits from an uncritical faith in technology? How can we remedy technology s problems while retaining its benefits? Showing how unbelief has always served humanity, Epstein revisits the historical apostates, skeptics, mystics, Cassandras, heretics, and whistleblowers who embody the tech reformation we desperately need. He argues that we must learn how to collectively demand that technology serve our pursuit of human lives that are deeply worth living. In our tumultuous era of religious extremism and rampant capitalism, Tech Agnostic offers a new path forward, where we maintain enough critical distance to remember that all that glitters is not gold nor is it God.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Greg EpsteinGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Tech Agnostic
Title: Tech Agnostic
Subtitle: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why
EAN: 9780262049207
ISBN: 9780262049207
Release Date: 10/29/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Tech Agnostic : How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: General, Movements / Humanism, Philosophy
Genre: Religion, Philosophy
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Author: Greg Epstein
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
