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Anyone heard of it?

From the author's website:
"Ranging from the printing press to the telegraph, from radio to the Internet, TechGnosis peels away the utilitarian shell of technology to reveal the mystical and millennialist expectations that permeate the history of technology, and especially information technology. The book shows how the religious imagination, far from disappearing in our supposedly secular age, continues to feed the utopian dreams, apocalyptic visions, digital phantasms, and alien obsessions that populate today's "technological unconscious." In turn, TechGnosis also shows how the language and ideas of the information society have shaped and even transformed many aspects of contemporary spirituality. In the end, the book gestures towards a vision of "the network path": a global, pluralistic perspective capable of grappling with some of the forces that are currently tearing us apart: spirit and science, modernity and nihilism, technology and the human."

I'm on page 21, anf it's already spun my brain off into the stratoshphere...and all he's done is talk about mythologies of Hephaestus, Hermes and Thoth and culture in ancient Greece and Alexandria. I can't wait to get further into it. The writing is amazingly poetic.


Techgnosis

I feel better now...except that I feel like I've been flattened by a runaway Mack truck.
This is the result of a thought?

Imagine numbers so high they dont have names...and no matter how high you count, you can always count one higher.
Where does this universe end? What shape is it? Is it spherical? What marks the boundaries? Are there walls? I kinda imagine it like on The Truman Show...after the storm, when Jim Carey's boat hits the wall and he finds the stairs. Maybe the universe doesn't have stairs and a door to exit the studio...but the universe is either infinite or it isn't, and if it isn't...well, it has to end somewhere. And what would the walls be made of? There's a thought...What contains the universe?

Just thoughts.

Right now, Psycho (Er, Fireball) is curled up and sleeping on me. She's adorable when she's asleep. She could care less about what the walls of the universe are made of.