Sam Gill

Religion and Technology into the Future (eBook, ePUB)

From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498580915
• Artikelnr.: 53494539

Autorenporträt

Sam Gill is professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of Dancing Culture Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Into the Future: An Introduction
1. Thumbelina's Severed Head
2. Little Green Sprout
3. Fury Road
4. Garden of Making and Unmaking
5. Ava and the Ultimate Turing Test
6. Cursed, Cursed Creator! Why Did I Live?
7. Falling in Love With "Her": One Singular Sensation
8. Made of Clay: Prometheus and Golem
9. Gender Matters
10. Creepy Dollies or My Fair Ladies?
11. I-Robot
12. Orphans of the Sky: Outside, Movement, & Corporeal Concepts
13. Violent Delights
14. Robots & the End of Work
15. "Beam Me Up Scotty!" Corporeal Concepts & Posthuman
16. The Matrix
17. Meet Me on the Holodeck!
18. ToolsRUs
19. Cyborg/Metahuman: Future of Gender & Religion
20. Watson and the Jeopardy! Test: Machine Learning
21. It is Bigger on the Inside! TARDIS & Wormholes
22. Secret Hidden Horror
23. Step Again Into the Forge
24. Song of Tomorrow's Eve