Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age

Synopsis

A NEW REVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF THE FUTURE FROM THE AUTHORS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE FUTURICA TRILOGY This book has the audacity to describe individualism as a religion and to depict reality as being primarily virtual rather than physical. Though the authors rattle the reader's perception of both the self and the world, their overriding purpose is to induce passive recipients of the future to instead become active participants. Through engaging observations, lucid interpretations and an accessible style, Bard & Söderqvist serve up a challenging analysis of our present and offer inspiring insight into the dramatic twists and turns of our tomorrow. "Bard himself is as fascinating as is his trilogy... The books are eminently readable." - Publishing Perspectives Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist are Swedish philosophers and authors of the internationally successful Futurica Trilogy. They lecture the world over about the current global internet revolution. Bard & Söderqvist are regarded as pioneers in the literary genre futurica, where philosophy, social theory and futurology merge. After joining forces in the late 1990's, Bard & Söderqvist argued that the interactive revolution is the most profound and radical of all technological revolutions in history, that it completely transforms society, politics, the economy and the culture, social power structures, the collective world view and the whole concept of being human. They demonstrated the effects of digital dynamics on various levels of a globalized world. They not only made controversial predictions in the early years of the new millennium (and cleverly foresaw both the dot.com crash and September 11), they have since then been proven right in virtually every aspect and even in the most minute of detals. Not only did Bard & Söderqvist foresee revolutionary innovations such as Google, Facebook, Al-Qaida and Wikileaks; they also went deeper and looked into the very power struggle of the on-going revolution itself. Bard & Söderqvist are now back with a new metaphysics for the digital age.

Copyright:

2014

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789175471822

Publisher:

Stockholm Text

Date of Addition:

10/11/14

Copyrighted By:

Stockholm Text

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Philosophy

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