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

The self, rather than representing a human being with an emotional life who deserves acceptance simply for being alive, is treated like an external product to be marketed, invested in, and sold.

tech companies of all kinds profit by expanding it, offering so-called innovations that often amount to little more than monetizable ways of incentivizing us to choose isolation over connection, technological transaction over organic human interchange.

starting companies frequently struggle inwardly, waiting for a crisis to seek help.

take computer science classes, and that’s all fine and dandy, but we really haven’t figured out, what does it mean to be a citizen of a digital world? We need to integrate that into our early education experiences.”

the less we allow ourselves to rely on one another, the less we trust one another.

But I don’t see much humanity or value in it. And you know, even the most commercial religion has values that

we can each strive to be stars that come together to form brilliant constellations. When we all shine on one another, everyone’s way is brighter.

if you choose to speak truth to the powerful interests in your life and career—“some people will listen.”

human communication is seen as an increasingly sophisticated effort not simply to send messages but to maintain society through “the representation of shared beliefs.”