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I presented February 19th at the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh on The New World:  Technology, Religion and the Utopian Ideal. Following is a selected  bibliography for those who attended.

• Crawford, Mathew, Shop Class as Soul Craft (Essay in The New Atlantis)
• Johnson, Paul, The Birth of the Modern:  World Society, 1815 – 1830
• Nobel, David, The Religion of Technology; The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
• Postman, Neil, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
• Standage, Tom, The Victorian Internet
• Zuboff, Shoshana, In the Age of the Smart Machine:  The Future of Work and Power

Additional Links of Interest:

• 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal (Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity in Time Magazine)

• It’s Ray Bradbury’s Future, We’re Just Living in It (well-written essay in the American Conservative)

The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42*. The important thing is to ask the right question(s). Next, I’ll be presenting  March 3rd at the Carnegie Library’s People’s University on The Irish Potato Famine in Myth and Memory

CDL

*Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy