Jesus Is Returning as a Cyborg: On the Origin of Digital Species by Topher Dean Maraffi, 2009

Description: Observations of human cultural evolution towards a technological singularity.

Keywords: singularity technology evolution memes cyborgs robots information climate religion computers theory philosophy

Authors quoted include: Richard Dawkins, Alan Turing , Michel Foucault, Lynn Margulis, Daniel Dennett, Susan Blackmore, Marvin Minsky, Donna Haraway, Hans Jonas, Katherine Hayles, Rodney Brooks, Kevin Kelly, Hans Moravec, Sarah Kember, Irving John Good, Charles Seife, Wojciech Zurek, Tom Siegfried, Jon Agar, Dorian Sagan, Victor Burgin, Slavoj Zizek, etc…

Reviews: "It is a fantastic paper; well done. I like your style." ... Kevin Kelly: Techno-philosopher and Senior Maverick at Wired magazine, TED speaker, publisher of The Whole Earth Review, author of The Technium and Out of Control, co-founder of the Hackers' Conference, and consultant on the Matrix movies (www.kk.org).

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..... "I will explore the possibility that the scientific concepts and science fiction behind technology are linked to religious myth, and may be a control mechanism of cultural forces driving human behavior to evolve an environment conducive to emergent digital life."

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