Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

Epstein, Greg

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-29
  • 售價: $1,230
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,169
  • 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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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本急需的全球科技崇拜探索,以及將懷疑主義和不可知論作為生活方式的理性論證,來自《紐約時報》暢銷書《無神的善良》的作者。

當今的科技已經超越宗教,成為二十一世紀生活和社群的主要影響力。在《Tech Agnostic》中,哈佛和麻省理工學院的影響力人文主義牧師Greg Epstein探討了在這種信仰下,成為批判性思考者的意義。這本書鼓勵讀者在「科技」的誘惑光環之外重新確認我們的共同人性,主張以科技不可知論而非崇拜作為生活方式。Epstein並不建議我們回到一個神話般的前科技過去,而是展示了為什麼我們必須保持對創新的自由思考批判視角,直到它證明自己值得我們的信仰或不值得。

Epstein提出了深刻的問題,將人性置於工程的核心:誰從對科技的無批判信仰中獲利?我們如何在保留科技好處的同時解決其問題?他展示了不信仰如何始終服務於人類,並重新審視那些歷史上的背叛者、懷疑者、神秘主義者、卡桑德拉、異端者和吹哨人,他們體現了我們迫切需要的科技改革。他主張,我們必須學會集體要求科技服務於我們追求值得深切生活的人類生活。

在我們這個宗教極端主義和肆虐資本主義的動盪時代,《Tech Agnostic》提供了一條新的前進道路,讓我們保持足夠的批判距離,記住所有閃光的東西並非金子——也不是上帝。

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)

Greg M. Epstein 擔任哈佛大學與麻省理工學院的人文主義牧師,為學生、教職員提供人文主義視角下的倫理與存在問題建議。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)。他是暢銷書 Good Without God 的作者,並曾為 MIT Technology Review、CNN.com、The Boston GlobeThe Washington PostNewsweek 撰寫文章。