Salvation Through Technology?
Human aspirations for technology are vast. One day, maybe we'll develop technologies that\xa0cure cancer. Rid us of viruses. Perhaps fix that pesky climate change. Even, deliver us from death altogether.... But is the increasing belief in salvation through technology just religion in new clothes?\xa0Meghan O'Gieblyn\xa0is the author of the book\xa0God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. In the fall of 2021\xa0Brooke\xa0spoke to\xa0O'Gieblyn about the shared assumptions of Christian creationists and\xa0transhumanist\xa0tech leaders, the flawed metaphor of the mind as a computer, and the relationships of humans to the machines we build.
\nThis is a segment from our October 15th, 2021 program,\xa0Against the Machine.