Technology has increasingly fulfilled roles historically served by religion, providing meaning, purpose, and answers to existential anxieties, resembling a shift from theological to technological frameworks.
Greg Epstein's Tech Agnostic highlights parallels between Silicon Valley's cultural practices and religious systems, questioning who benefits from tech-centric innovations while advocating for a human-centered engineering approach.
Social platforms act like religious doctrines, imposing behavioral constraints through non-transparent algorithms and rules, suggesting that technology often lacks value neutrality.
Reframing technology as a tool rather than a belief system is crucial for ethical development, preventing transhumanism from being seen as inherently beneficial.
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