Pandemonium Tremendum
Excerpts from “Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God”
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Review of: Margaret Wertheim’s “The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace”
Review of Margaret Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, W. W. Norton and Co. (1999) Introduction The “Pearly Gates of Cyberspace” is a series of insightful reflections on the notion of space in the Western tradition, a notion that has found expression in our own times as the ubiquitous cyberspace, weighty in its enormous impacts…
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Religion, Technology and Globalization
In the new millennium scientific discoveries and their applications in technology will occur at a rate unprecedented in human history, and their influence will be global. What contribution could the religious traditions of the world make to the future of technology and globalization? My examples come mainly from Christianity, but I will note some…
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Pickover Surfs Hyperspace
Meta 134. 1999/08/24. Approximately 849 words. Below is an announcement about Clifford Pickover’s latest book entitledSURFING THROUGH HYPERSPACE UNDERSTANDING HIGHER UNIVERSES IN SIX EASYLESSONS. The book is on the spirituality of higher dimensions, such as thefourth dimension. Among other things, he discusses the possibility of Godhovering in the fourth dimension, only inches away from us….
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Review of John Maddox’s “What Remains to be Discoverd”
Review of John Maddox’s What Remains to be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race, New York: Touchstone Books, 1998. Contents: – Preface – Part One: Mattero 1. Beginnings Without Endo 2. Simplicity Buried in Complexityo 3. Everything at…
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Deus Ex Machina vs. Electric Gaia
The emergence of cyberspace is undoubtedly creating a wave of religious enthusiasm. Partly, the infinity that cyberspace creates, functions as an ideal mechanism for the projection of our fondest hopes and deepest fears. It therefore generates an extraordinary amount of cultural energy, the fusion of techno-utopianism, the desire for the spiritual liberation from the constraints…
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Review of David F. Noble’s “The Religion of Technology”
Having demonstrated that the ambiguous modern scientific and technological enterprise has its origin in something as ignoble as religion, David Noble apparently expects us to join with him in disowning it.
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Review of David F. Nobles’ “The Religion of Technology”
Review of David F. Noble, The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention. NY: Knopf, 1997 Noble’s general claim is that religious visions have propelled an interest in technological achievements. I suspect that a more accurate reading would see a human interest in technology receiving a post factum justification by…