Religion and the New Technologies

• Main Author: Noreen Herzfeld (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2017
• Subjects: transhumanism; religious anthropology; cryonics; bioenhancement; technology; machine ethics; gnosticism; big data; artificial intelligence; resurrection; CRISPER
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In April 2000, Bill Joy, co-founder and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems published a controversial article entitled "Why the Future Does not Need Us." Joy called for a moratorium on research in three new technological fields-artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and genetic engineeri...