Technianity - Science as Salvation
Part two in a series on the International Religion
Frank Wright
Mar 28
IN this post I hope to outline some of the aspects of the technological cult which promises a miraculous magnification of power and potential. This is another aspect of the international religion, a loose system of related beliefs flooding into the vacuum of the liberated self.
Electric Sheep - Science Fiction and the Promise of Escape
New and Improved - Humanity Without Limits
Ray Kurzweil: Prophet of Immortality
Who will curate my instagram? - The Horror of the Bugman
ChatLGBT - The Immortality of Community Guidelines
JG Ballard and Philip K Dick
Escape - The Afterworld of Tomorrow
Technianity - A god from the Machine
Electric Sheep
Science fiction was formerly divided into two categories: hard, being based on a precise understanding of realistic technology, and soft - whose only limit on the possible was the imagination.
https://frankwright.substack.com/p/technianity-science-as-salvation
