Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real. “Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.”
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I'm going to plug Meghan O'Gieblyn's God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning again. It's a book-length version of Stross's article focusing on the "theological" part of his quote:
O'Gieblyn was born in a religious household and went to seminary then became dilussioned and became a tech-writer only to find the techno-capitalists were just repackaging religion in some of these wild undertakings. It meanders a bit with her personal story and I think when I first read I thought it was just OK but as time has gone on I find myself revisiting the book more and more.
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