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Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
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Erik Davis
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How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination?
In TechGnosis - a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword - Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah.
The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare, and fantasy.
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Critic reviews
“TechGnosis is an essential work, tracing the co-evolution of technology with the urge for transcendence. It helps put today's obsession with the singularity and post-human consciousness into perspective, without condemning them as mere symptoms of millenarian fantasy nor worshipping at the altar of the eschaton.” (Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock)
“Erik Davis has written one of the best media studies books ever published. There’s never been a more lucid analysis of the goofy, muddled, superstition-riddled human mind, struggling to come to terms with high technology. Unlike most tomes about tech, the occult, and social theory, TechGnosis is literate, accessible, and funny. A real winner all around!” (Bruce Sterling, author of Gothic High-Tech and The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things)
“Erik Davis’s compendious recitation of the history of communications technology dominates the discursive landscape of techno-exegesis like a Martian war machine. In the grand style of H. G. Wells, TechGnosis is an apocalyptic synopsis of technological climax.” (Terence McKenna, author of The Archaic Revival)
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- Length: 65 hrs and 38 mins
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(ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Official Study Guide, 9th Edition has been completely updated based on the latest 2021 CISSP Exam Outline. This bestselling Sybex study guide covers 100% of the exam objectives. You'll prepare for the exam smarter and faster with Sybex thanks to expert content, knowledge from our real-world experience, advice on mastering this adaptive exam, access to the Sybex online interactive learning environment, and much more. Reinforce what you've learned with key topic exam essentials and chapter review questions.
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Passed the CISSP exam
- By Ollie on 12-30-23
By: Mike Chapple, and others
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- By: Ethan Mollick
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Something new entered our world in November 2022—the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant: after millions of years on our own, humans had developed a kind of co-intelligence that could augment, or even replace, human thinking. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI.
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great intro book marred by poor narration
- By Amazon Customer on 04-14-24
By: Ethan Mollick
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Mindmasters (Anna Caputo version)
- The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
- By: Sandra Matz
- Narrated by: Anna Caputo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg.
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An Important book!! Very well written!! Empowering!
- By onili on 02-03-25
By: Sandra Matz
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Cybersecurity All-in-One for Dummies
- By: Joseph Steinberg, Kevin Beaver CISSP, Ira Winkler CISSP, and others
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
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Cybersecurity All-in-One For Dummies covers a lot of ground in the world of keeping computer systems safe from those who want to break in. This book offers a one-stop resource on cybersecurity basics, personal security, business security, cloud security, security testing, and security awareness. Filled with content to help with both personal and business cybersecurity needs, this book shows you how to lock down your computers, devices, and systems—and explains why doing so is more important now than ever.
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Great book
- By KatieLynn on 10-08-24
By: Joseph Steinberg, and others
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- By: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen. They culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world's largest businesses—from drug manufacturers to software developers to shipping companies. At the attack's epicenter in Ukraine, ATMs froze. The railway and postal systems shut down. Hospitals went dark.
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- By ndru1 on 11-12-19
By: Andy Greenberg
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The Demon in the Machine
- How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
- By: Paul Davies
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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What is life? In this penetrating and wide-ranging book, world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name; it is a domain where biology, computing, logic, chemistry, quantum physics, and nanotechnology intersect.
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Thought Provoking
- By Amazon Customer on 08-26-24
By: Paul Davies
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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Interesting ideas but lots of negativity
- By Dan B on 05-22-23
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The Technological Republic
- Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
- By: Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Narrated by: Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s success.
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Premise no longer applicable
- By Marion B. McGovern on 02-28-25
By: Alexander C. Karp, and others
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Nexus
- A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world.
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Painfully boring
- By 80s Kid on 09-18-24
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.
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Best book about Challenger so far
- By Bruce Baumbush on 06-05-24
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The Sirens' Call
- How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
- By: Chris Hayes
- Narrated by: Chris Hayes
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.”
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Thoughtful and captivating
- By Nancy on 02-02-25
By: Chris Hayes
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- Julian Uberuaga
- 07-21-21
awesome
amazing listen. definitely worth it. what a fun auditory journey this thing was. thanks
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- Lucien
- 03-10-21
A bit difficult to read but worth it
Techgnosis provides great insight into the relationship between technology and the occult, exposing the intricate web connecting the two.
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- R. Albuyeh
- 09-18-22
Very interesting book but narrator mispronounces too many words
The narrator’s disregard for traditional pronunciation of many words were so distracting for me, even though the subject and writing style of this book was interesting. Exoteric, laissez fair,
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-05-20
This book is relevant to our times!
It is the story of those whose lives are about the intermingling of spirit with technology. For those of us whose life path merges magick and New Age with our current computer science, the book speaks of lived experiences of those following their dharma. When minds of deep thinkers reflect back on the lives they've lived, the book speaks about encounters and thoughts they've had. I've listened to this book and thought, "This book is all about my life!" and I can imagine that many more feel the same way.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-15-19
Irresistible Classic of Digital Theosophy
Relevant more than ever, this masterpiece of modern-day gnosticism would warm you up to my own recently published book The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution on the directions of teleological evolution of humankind and of us as individuals.
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- MF
- 08-19-19
Very excellent topic for this book.
I am surprised that this book covers both esoteric thought and technology. It is the perfect convergence of topics, done in a similar manner to, but without the cultiness of, Scientology. Now this landed at a perfect time in my life, which in fact was destiny. It's a synchronicity of my scholarship in gnosticism and high technology. Excellent book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-21-20
Nobody understands High Weirdness like Erik Davis
This guy is simply the best. Nobody I've read groks the waning days of the 20th century and the twilight of the American Empire like Erik Davis. He breaks down the barriers between philosophy and religion, technology and pop culture and how they work to empower some and oppress the rest.
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- Kevin Hipsh
- 01-05-22
This is the book you may be looking for
I had this book in my wishlist for years. I was interested in Gnosticism/religion/occultism and the sociology and politics of technology, but I never bought the book because I feared that it would either be too superficial or too technical. It was nearer to the latter, and I did well to wait before reading it, because I know I could not have understood it this well a few years ago. Now it feels like it came just in time. The book is not for everyone; but because following it can be prohibitive for people not already following certain conversations.
This author is very well read, and is able to address a broad range of subjects, deeply, and with a clear, fairly impartial, and humorous style.
I enjoyed this read because it convincingly connected a lot of dots for me between spirituality and technology.
I think the point of the book was to be a historical overview and a lucid connector of what seem to be different things, and not a conclusive manifesto about what to do about this, and I appreciate it for that.
I think the Narrator had a great voice and inflection for this work, but I must say that he mispronounced a lot of words throughout. But I can’t really blame him because the subjects are often so esoteric. Few people would notice an error anyway, and the intended subjects would not be missed by those already in the know.
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- Charles Blocher
- 07-03-19
New Age wish-thinking
This book is an attempt to modernize the kind of wish-thinking that has enabled charlatans, hucksters, and snake-oil salesmen throughout the ages.
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