Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology

Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos, the Open AI/Altman affair, EA/e-acc movements, and the general sense of cultural stagnation

Is technology the dominant religion of our time? Michael Sacasas thinks so. And yet, the religion of technology is undergoing secularization.

Sacasas explores the historical development of this religion, from Christianity’s entanglement with the techno-scientific enterprise to the rise of a civil religion based on technology. He discusses how the religi…