TECH AGNOSTIC: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation with Harvard/ MIT Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Now with the American election won with the help of Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, and other tech billionaires. We need to pay attention! TECH is now the major world religion! Think about it. Technology was developed as a tool to serve humans, not vice versa. Unfortunately, we humans seem to have forgotten this, as billions worldwide are literally addicted to our smartphones. Many in the upper echelon of technology circles propose and even ominously insist upon humanity serving technology futures. They believe that we, the people, should work towards constant innovation, a technological race to the top, even at the cost of humanity’s future. There is also an emerging thoughtform that suggests that humanity should sacrifice the planet, our very means of existence, to ensure that technology AI data personas would be preserved and reach their ultimate destiny.Peer-reviewed through The MIT Press and distributed by Penguin Random House, Epstein asked, “Who is profiting from these tech-centric futures, and how can we center humanity at the heart of engineering?” This is one of the most important books of our time. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.
0:09.9	And I've got to say, I haven't been this excited about a book in a really long time.
0:16.8	And I've interviewed a lot of great authors and a lot of very important books.
0:23.5	But I have with me Harvard, MIT, Humanist Chaplain,
0:28.6	Greg M. Epstein's brand new book.
0:31.2	It just came out called Tech Agnostic.
0:35.0	Greg, the subtitle is How technology became the world's most powerful religion
0:41.9	and why it desperately needs a reformation. And I might add Jaron Lanier, who is like one of
0:50.3	the architects of the internet who foresaw the mess we were going to be getting into
0:56.4	a long time ago and said, don't sign up to social media, you'll lose your privacy.
1:02.9	He said, I urge anyone with influence in tech culture to read this book.
1:08.5	And, you know, Greg, all I could say is, you mirrored so many of the critical
1:17.5	issues that I've encountered in my work as, because I've been doing, you know, work for 48 years
1:25.3	way before the internet, and I've been watching this. And you
1:30.5	reference people that I've studied, whose books I've read, whose podcasts I've been on, people
1:37.3	like, you know, your undivided attention of Center for Humane Technology, Douglas Rushkoff's, Team Human.
1:46.1	But, man, I just think everyone needs to read this book
1:50.2	and really stop and think about the importance of being human,
1:54.7	like technology is supposed to serve us.
1:58.7	And I too come from a Jewish background, and I've spoken for the Harvard humanists with
2:06.2	your mentor Tom Ferrick over the years.
2:09.7	All I can say is I'm a believer, and I just want you to share your central messages on this podcast.
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