Religion and technology into the future : from Adam to tomorrow's Eve / Sam Gill.

Author/creator Gill, Sam D., 1943- author.
Format Book
PublicationLanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Descriptionxix, 291 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Technology--Religious aspects.
Human beings.
Theological anthropology.

SeriesStudies in body and religion
Studies in body and religion. ^A1303109
Contents Into the future: An introduction -- Thumbelina's severed head -- Little green sprout -- Fury road -- Garden of making and unmaking -- Ava and the ultimate Turing test -- Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? -- Falling in love with "her": one singular sensation -- Made of clay: Prometheus and Golem -- Gender matters -- Creepy dollies or my fair ladies? -- I-robot -- Orphans of the sky: outside, movement, and corporeal concepts -- Violent delights -- Robots and the end of work -- "Beam me up Scotty!": corporeal concepts and posthuman -- The matrix -- Meet me on the holodeck! -- ToolsRUs -- Cyborg/metahuman: future of gender and religion -- Watson and theJeopardy! test: machine learning -- It is bigger on the inside!: TARDIS and wormholes -- Secret hidden horror -- Step again into the forge -- Song of tormorrow's Eve.
Abstract Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past. Creatively considered in some depth are a wide range of specific examples drawn especially from contemporary film and television, as well as from cosmology, ancient mythology, biblical literature, classical literature, folklore, evolution, popular culture, technology, and futurist studies. This book is distinctive, in part, in drawing on a wide range of resources demonstrating the indispensable interrelationship among these disparate materials. Science, technology, economics, and philosophy are seamlessly interwoven with history, gender, culture, religion, literature, pop culture, art, and film. Written for general as well as academic readers, it offers fascinating and provocative insights into who we are and where we are going -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Gill, Sam D., 1943- author. Religion and technology into the future Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018 9781498580915
LCCN 2018029624
ISBN9781498580908 hardcover alkaline paper
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