ISBN:
9780889205994
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (199 pages)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Campbell, Robert A. God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology, by William A. Stahl. Editions SR/24. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999, 185 pp. 29.95 2000
Series Statement:
Editions SR
Series Statement:
Editions SR Ser v.24
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stahl, William A., 1947 - God and the chip
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology -- Social aspects
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Computers -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Computers -- Social aspects
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Electronic books ; local
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Computers ; Moral and ethical aspects
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Computers ; Social aspects
;
Technology ; Moral and ethical aspects
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Technology ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Technologie
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Pseudoreligion
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Sprachanalyse
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: A CRITIQUE OF TECHNOLOGICAL MYSTICISM -- Chapter One: Technological Mysticism -- Chapter Two: Prophets of the Third Age -- Chapter Three: The Masculine Machine -- Chapter Four: Venerating the Black Box -- Chapter Five: Faust's Bargain -- Part II: REDEMPTIVE TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter Six: Two Philosophers and a Metallurgist -- Chapter Seven: Technology in the Good Society -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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