Volume 45, Number 20 · December 17, 1998
God in the Computer
By Keith Thomas
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
by David F. Noble
Knopf, 273 pp., $26.00
One of the most tedious features of the coming of the millennium will be the efforts of journalists and commentators to sum up the twentieth century and to identify its place in history. We know that centuries have no intrinsic identity, but they seem to have an irresistible hold on the way historians conceptualize the past and we can be sure that the twentieth century will no more escape being categorized than have its predecessors. But how will it be labeled? Will posterity look back upon it as the age of two world wars, the Holocaust, and the cold war? As the age of decolonization and the emerging third world? As the age of modernism and postmodernism?
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