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- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Copyright
- © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California
- ISSN
- 0011-3530
- eISSN
- 1944-785X
- DOI
- 10.1525/curh.2024.123.856.296
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Widespread concern over threats that pose an existential risk to the entire human species has provoked increasing attention and commitment to religious views of digital technology. These apocalyptic expectations of a glorious new digital world draw on American Christianity and play a visible role in tech culture and public life. The reshaping of traditional religions into new, but parallel, technological religions is characterized by a triple transformation of humanity into machines, machines into gods, and the universe into a cosmic and cosmically meaningful computer.
Journal
Current History – University of California Press
Published: Nov 1, 2024
Keywords: religion; artificial intelligence; apocalyptic; Christianity; cybernetics; futurism; immortality; transhumanism