This book examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past. Creatively considered and in some depth are a wide range of specific examples drawn especially from contemporary film and television but also from cosmology, ancient mythology, biblical literature, classical literature, folklore, evolution, popular culture, technology, and futurist studies. Core notions developed progressively throughout the book include: the fundamental importance of making in understanding technology; the essential religious and gendered foundation of the long history of making; evidence of the rising of a new female-based model (Tomorrow's Eve) for making; the outlining of a new body-centered theory of harmony differing from the classic theories of Pythagoras and Kepler and how it might assist us into a rich future; the primacy of the self-moving organic body to conception and perception; the distinction and evaluation of the types of cyborgs or amalgams--metahumans--we are becoming; deliberation on the dawning of a post-human and post-religion era; the nature of violence as both constitutive of and a threat to humanity; and the assessment and interpretation of such technological markers as singularity, interface, Bit Reality, AI, and robots as they interrelate with distinctively human intelligence, creativity, and emotions. A realistic assessment of the sobering possible perils of the current developments in technology is persistently balanced by optimistic prospects for the future. This book is distinctive, in part, in its drawing on a wide range of resources demonstrating the indispensable interrelationship among these disparate materials. Science, technology, economics, and philosophy are seamlessly interwoven with history, gender, culture, religion, literature, pop culture, art, and film. Written for general as well as academic readers, it offers fascinating and provocative insights into who we are and where we are going.

Religion and Technology Into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve and Mere Christianity

Religion and Technology Into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve

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