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Some of the biggest ascendant technological paradigm shifts — Bitcoin, the mission fueling SpaceX, longevity, AI, and nuclear energy — are driven by narratives of transcendence, share characteristics with religious movements, and are often pushed forward by religiously motivated individuals. Today we're running an exclusive excerpt from Boom, the new @stripepress book by @ByrneHobart and @TobiasAHuber, in which they lay out the case that the most revolutionary technologies of the past decade are highly spiritual in nature. Read it on the site 👇

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In Part III, they continue to work through the ideas of philosophers Martin Heidegger and René Girard, exploring the metaphysics of both technology and desire. “For both thinkers, salvation doesn’t come from technology itself but from a transcendent outside,” they posit. They then cite Nick Land, the father of accelerationism, whose ideas have sinc... See more

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the emerging technologies of today should be analogized to events like Genghis Khan’s rise in the 12th and 13th centuries or the proliferation of personal ranged weapons like longbows and muskets. While the technologies themselves are interesting enough, it’s their obvious capacity for triggering entirely new evolutionary arcs for humanity that are... See more

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The sources of these narratives also vary. They may stem from a philosophical commitment to technological determinism, the idea that technology drives history. This philosophical commitment to technological determinism may also at times be mingled with a quasi-religious faith in the envisioned techno-upotian future. The quasi-religious form can be ... See more

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