The Specter of a Cyborg Theocracy

The history of religion teaches us a lot about human nature. One obvious aspect is that people will pray to pretty much anything. We will fall to our knees before stones, rivers, or trees. We will raise our faces to beseech the sun, moon, and stars. People will bow down to animals. We will worship other human beings. We will recite incantations to statues of human-animal hybrids. We willingly sacrifice ourselves to abstract ideas. Knowing that, it should come as no surprise that people now pray to machines. Read Full Article »