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Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information by Erik Davis is a computer science book available to read on EtoBox.
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From the printing press to the telegraph, through radio, TV and the Internet, TechGnosis explores the mystical impulses that lie behind our obsession with information technology. In this thrilling book, writer and cyber guru Erik Davis demonstrates how religious imagination, magical dreams and millennialist fervour have always permeated the story of technology. Through shamanism to gnosticism, voodoo to alchemy, Buddhism to evangelism, TechGnosis peels away the rational shell of info tech to rev
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- Author
- Erik Davis
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail Crime
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781852426453
- Category
- computer science
- Subjects
- Sociology, Computer Science, Technology
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (111 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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