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Is tech a religion? Is Elon Musk a hungry ghost?
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Is tech a religion? Is Elon Musk a hungry ghost?

My conversation with Greg Epstein, author of the new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation.

Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Greg Epstein, American Humanist chaplain at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of the great new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation. We discuss:

  • How tech is becoming a religion, and why it’s connected to our belief that we’re never enough.

  • How Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates are hungry ghosts.

  • What ‘tech-as-religion’ allows us to see and understand that ‘capitalism-as-religion’ doesn’t.

  • My concerns with the metaphor and Greg’s thoughtful response.

  • How we might usher in a tech reformation, and the tech humanists leading the way.

  • The value of agnosticism and not-knowing when it comes to tech.

Okay, that’s it for now,

Charley

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