Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
暫譯: 科技無關論：技術如何成為世界上最強大的宗教，以及為什麼它迫切需要改革
Epstein, Greg
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-10-29
- 售價: $1,160
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,102
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 368
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 0262049201
- ISBN-13: 9780262049207
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An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Good without God.
Today's technology has overtaken religion as the chief influence on twenty-first century life and community. In Tech Agnostic, Harvard and MIT's influential humanist chaplain Greg Epstein explores what it means to be a critical thinker with respect to this new faith. Encouraging readers to reassert their common humanity beyond the seductive sheen of "tech," this book argues for tech agnosticism--not worship--as a way of life. Without suggesting we return to a mythical pre-tech past, Epstein shows why we must maintain a freethinking critical perspective toward innovation until it proves itself worthy of our faith or not. Epstein asks probing questions that center humanity at the heart of engineering: Who profits from an uncritical faith in technology? How can we remedy technology's problems while retaining its benefits? Showing how unbelief has always served humanity, Epstein revisits the historical apostates, skeptics, mystics, Cassandras, heretics, and whistleblowers who embody the tech reformation we desperately need. He argues that we must learn how to collectively demand that technology serve our pursuit of human lives that are deeply worth living. In our tumultuous era of religious extremism and rampant capitalism, Tech Agnostic offers a new path forward, where we maintain enough critical distance to remember that all that glitters is not gold--nor is it God.
Today's technology has overtaken religion as the chief influence on twenty-first century life and community. In Tech Agnostic, Harvard and MIT's influential humanist chaplain Greg Epstein explores what it means to be a critical thinker with respect to this new faith. Encouraging readers to reassert their common humanity beyond the seductive sheen of "tech," this book argues for tech agnosticism--not worship--as a way of life. Without suggesting we return to a mythical pre-tech past, Epstein shows why we must maintain a freethinking critical perspective toward innovation until it proves itself worthy of our faith or not. Epstein asks probing questions that center humanity at the heart of engineering: Who profits from an uncritical faith in technology? How can we remedy technology's problems while retaining its benefits? Showing how unbelief has always served humanity, Epstein revisits the historical apostates, skeptics, mystics, Cassandras, heretics, and whistleblowers who embody the tech reformation we desperately need. He argues that we must learn how to collectively demand that technology serve our pursuit of human lives that are deeply worth living. In our tumultuous era of religious extremism and rampant capitalism, Tech Agnostic offers a new path forward, where we maintain enough critical distance to remember that all that glitters is not gold--nor is it God.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
對全球科技崇拜的迫切探索，以及作為生活方式的懷疑主義和不可知論的理性案例，來自《紐約時報》暢銷書《無神的善良》的作者。
作者簡介
Greg M. Epstein serves as Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT, where he advises students, faculty, and staff members on ethical and existential concerns from a humanist perspective. He was TechCrunch's first "ethicist in residence" and has been called "a symbol of the transition in how Americans relate to organized religion" (The Conversation). He is the author of the New York Times-bestselling book Good Without God and has also written for MIT Technology Review, CNN.com, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and Newsweek.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
格雷格·M·艾普斯坦（Greg M. Epstein）擔任哈佛大學和麻省理工學院的人文主義牧師，為學生、教職員工提供人文主義視角下的倫理和存在問題的建議。他曾是《TechCrunch》的首位「駐場倫理學家」，並被稱為「美國人與組織宗教關係轉變的象徵」（《The Conversation》）。他是《紐約時報》暢銷書《無神的善良》（Good Without God）的作者，並曾為《麻省理工科技評論》（MIT Technology Review）、CNN.com、《波士頓環球報》（The Boston Globe）、《華盛頓郵報》（The Washington Post）和《新聞週刊》（Newsweek）撰稿。
