Reviews for Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention

The average rating for Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-19 00:00:00 Robert Palmer An important thesis marred by (1) history-as-list and (2) heavy reliance on a handful of other secondary sources, the ones I'm familiar with being much more interesting and readable. Excessive use of analogizing and definition-switching, along with cherry-picking: in numerous instances historical figures acknowledged as secondary or trivial are quoted at length because they support the author's thesis. Marxism is covered in a single sentence. Read Nye's _American Technological Sublime_ or Werthiem's _The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace_ instead.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-22 00:00:00 Walt Walt This is a very good survey of the reliance on religion that technology has for long displayed. Some of the information may be common knowledge, much of it is not, but having it collected together is very valuable. The two minor issues that I have are minor critiques. The first being the date of publication. Nothing to be done about that, but I would love to have updates about the last twenty years. Second, the parts that I most enjoyed were the conclusion and appendix. I wish that they were longer or that there was more similar material included.