Is tech a religion? Is Elon Musk a hungry ghost?

Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Greg Epstein, American Humanist chaplain at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of the great new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation. We discuss:

* How tech is becoming a religion, and why it’s connected to our belief that we’re never enough.

* How Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates are hungry ghosts.

* What ‘tech-as-religion’ allows us to see and understand that ‘capitalism-as-religion’ doesn’t.

* My concerns with the metaphor and Greg’s thoughtful response.

* How we might usher in a tech reformation, and the tech humanists leading the way.

* The value of agnosticism and not-knowing when it comes to tech.

Okay, that’s it for now,

Charley

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