The book contains seventeen informative stories about cults. Download now as nomad invaders ride south to attack the peaceful, goddessworshipping people of shara, the priestess marrah is initiated into the cult of the dark mother. A neoluddite treatise on hightech, artificial intelligence, and the true art of. Cult membership here are the requirements to join the cult species, birth, ability, money, offerings, etc. Artificial intelligence, and the true art of thinking, theodore roszak. Data glut obscures basic questions of justice and purpose and may even hinder rather than enhance our productivity. Dec 25, 2019 nicole rated it liked it apr 21, books by theodore roszak. The cult of information guide books acm digital library. Jun 15, 2009 the cult files is everything you would expect from a book with that title. Theodore roszak dares to suggest that perhaps, like the unfortunate emperor, the computer has been overdressed with false claims made by. I will be using them, therefore, to emphasize the radical difference between ideas and data which the cult of information has done so much to obscure.
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