Thursday, August 8, 2013
How Steve Jobs Turned Technology — And Apple — Into Religion
How Steve Jobs Turned Technology — And Apple — Into Religion | Wired Opinion | Wired.com: "“Much ink has been spilled drafting the Steve Jobs encomium. But Jobs and Apple are interesting for far more than technological prowess — they provide an allegory for reading religion in the information age. They are further evidence that shifts in popular religion throughout history are accompanied by changes in the media environment: when the dominant modes of communication change, so do the frameworks for religious belief. Still, this shift would require a fitting mythology…"
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