“Much ink has been spilled drafting the Steve Jobs encomium,” Brett T. Robinson writes for Wired.
“But Jobs and Apple are interesting for far more than technological prowess — they provide an allegory for reading religion in the information age,” Robinson writes. “They are further evidence that the shifts in popular religion that occur throughout history are accompanied by changes in the media environment.”
Robinson writes, “The shift would require a fitting mythology — a coherent narrative for understanding the transcendent possibilities of networked computing. The implications are far-reaching, because when the dominant modes of communication change, so do the frameworks for religious belief.””
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