![]() The true father of Singularitarianism is a sci-fi author and retired mathematics professor from Wisconsin named Vernor Vinge. Ray Kurzweil may be the best-known prophet of this order, but he was not the first. It is the Opus Dei of the postwar church of gadget worship. If, as Ellul has it, technology is the state religion, Singularitarianism must be seen as its most extreme and fanatical sect. “Particularly disquieting is the gap between the enormous power they wield and their critical ability, which must be estimated as null,” he wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A remarkable man, and a leader of the French underground resistance who sheltered refugees from the Holocaust, Ellul survived a global catastrophe that was enabled by scientists and engineers only to find that these same technicians, these false priests, would rule the century. Technology was identified as the true official religion of the modern state more than seventy years ago by the late Christian anarchist philosopher Jacques Ellul. Excerpted from "Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley" by Corey Pein. ![]()
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