The internet as a metaphor for God? + documentary *A war on science (God against science)*
source: http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/10505-the-internet-as-a-metaphor-for-god
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In her ground-breaking study of human identity in the age of the Internet (Life on the Screen), Sherry Turkle reports that numerous computer users she has interviewed talk of their online experience in spiritual terms. In these narratives people tell her that computer networks "resonate with our most profound sense that life is not predictable. They provoke spiritual, even religious speculations." She cites one interviewee who concludes: "To me, it's God coming together with science, and computers have made it all possible." http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/10505-the-internet-as-a-metaph...
