The Christianity of technology
In the search of God, the promised land, or whatever eternal happiness can be reached through technology?
By Noble's opinion definitely impies technology is heavily involved in religion; most of western culture religion/ Christianity. Only thing I am very curious is how often Noble reffers to Christianity. There are plenty of other religions, but most of the time Noble demonstrates through Christianity. It's just odd to me, where most of religions or all of religions plays with beliefs of eternal life, peace, god, or god life power. It seems only Christianity is most influenced by technology. Correct me if i am wrong, but religions of most technologically advanced countries such as Japan, Korea, and China are not even mentioned in Noble's book. In my opinion people with lot more advanced technology would have better idea of where technology stands in religion.
I guess someone understands what i am trying to say, but i am going to assume most of people won't understand what i am trying to say.
Basically what i am trying to say is that when the book is called the religion of technology, it would be more convincing by reffering to various religion rather than just focusing its ideas mostly or all of it on Christianity.
posted by nickkil | 7:48 AM
1 Comments:
You are certainly right about Noble limiting his analysis to Christianity, which is perhaps one of the weaknesses of the book. What would you say to the idea that mainstream uses or applications of technology are based largely on Western ideals and that the West has imposed its "technological will" on the rest of the world? It would be interesting to do a study on how Asian countries are utilizing technology based on principles (religious or otherwise) that are distinct to a particular country, culture or religion. Maybe this is something you would like to pursue as an essay topic?
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