Where does a new technology-based spirituality leave the disenfranchised?
What the many thousands of people who work, use and study the new technologies and the cultures around them know is so far removed from the proverbial half-traditional, half-globalised farmer in India, China or Africa. It’s interesting to wonder how much we’re being sucked into a certain hyper-technological millennial obsession that’s actually totally detached from the life-experience of most of the people on this eExercising the ghosts in the machinearth. That it might end up having a religious dimension doesn’t surprise me, that those with access to that edge might feel they have some kind of Gnostic insight, secret access that other people don’t have. That this may become another dimension of social tension is extraordinary. It could also be very dangerous. Techgnosis by Erik Davis is available from Serpent’s Tail.
