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

“It’s a manifestation of intense greed,” she says, indicating a partial point in favor of my thesis, and “it’s replaced religion in many ways,” specifying its propensity to drain followers’ time and resources.

but that day in San Jose, I saw an analog technological solution that required both desperation and plucky initiative. these people, in one of the richest areas of the richest country in the history of the world, were so individually and collectively disenfranchised, over such a long period of time, that they effectively set up their own refugee ca

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.

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

they’re trying to promote and a belief in a greater good, but I don’t see that in a lot of tech.

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

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

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.

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