God Of The Internet

Author : Lynn Lipinski
Publisher : Majestic Content Los Angeles
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996467636

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God of the Internet by Lynn Lipinski Pdf

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2016 Book List. Finalist, Best Thriller of 2016, Pacific Book Awards. A deadly and exhilarating game of cat and mouse that has all the makings of an engaging series about fighting terrorists. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, Juliana al-Dossari is a woman with a mission. When terrorist hackers threaten to disrupt water and power systems in Boston, Dallas, and Los Angeles, she joins her husband and a team of white hat hackers to track them down. With few technical skills but plenty of courage, Juliana quickly learns how to navigate the dangerous waters of the internet in order to save her city. But using her knowledge comes at a high price - her marriage and her children are threatened if she fails. Filled with action, suspense and intrigue, God of the Internet is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you resisting to pause until the very end. GOD OF THE INTERNET is a delightfully frightening, completely realistic fictional depiction of a new face of terrorism. -IndieReader Five stars. In a real thrill ride of a read, God of the Internet...will grab readers from the very first pages, and keep them obsessively turning...all the way through until the very end. -Readers' Favorite Five stars. Lipinski has constructed a thriller based on elements that are intricately intertwined today-the internet, the family, and terrorism. In this fast paced potboiler, digital derring-do shares page space with familial obligations and international intrigue. -Pacific Book Review

Author : Alexander Bard,Jan Söderqvist
Publisher : Stockholm Text
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789175471822

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Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age by Alexander Bard,Jan Söderqvist Pdf

A book that dares to describe individualism as a religion and paint a reality that is primarily virtual, rather than physical. While the authors don’t mind challenging the reader’s view of the self and the world, their main intention is to induce passive receivers of the future to become more active participants. Engaging observations and perceptive interpretations of contemporary society.

Author : Scott Klososky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945455942

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Did God Create the Internet? by Scott Klososky Pdf

Author : Nathan Schneider
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520269071

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God in Proof by Nathan Schneider Pdf

In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelieversÑfrom ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to todayÕs most eminent philosophers and the New Atheists. Framed by an account of SchneiderÕs own unique journey, God in Proof illuminates the great minds who wrestled with one of historyÕs biggest questions together with their arguments, bringing them to life in their time, and our own. SchneiderÕs sure-handed portrayal of the characters and ideas involved in the search for proof challenges how we normally think about doubt and faith while showing that, in their quest for certainty and the proofs to declare it, thinkers on either side of the God divide are often closer to one another than they would like to think.

Author : Esther Emery
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310345145

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What Falls from the Sky by Esther Emery Pdf

Esther Emery was a successful playwright and theater director, wife and mother, and loving it all - until, suddenly, she wasn’t. When a personal and professional crisis of spectacular extent leaves her reeling, Esther is left empty, alone in her marriage, and grasping for identity that does not define itself by busyness and a breakneck pace of life. Something had to be done. What Falls from the Sky is Esther’s fiercely honest, piercingly poetic account of a year without Internet - 365 days away from the good, the bad, and the ugly of our digital lives - in one woman’s desperate attempt at a reset. Esther faces her addiction to electronica, her illusion of self-importance, and her longing to return to simpler days, but then the unexpected happens. Her experiment in analog is hijacked by a spiritual awakening, and Esther finds herself suddenly, inexplicably drawn to the faith she had rejected for so long. Ultimately, Esther’s unplugged pilgrimage brings her to a place where she finally finds the peace - and the God who created it - she has been searching for all along. What Falls from the Sky offers a path for you to do the same. For all the ways the Internet makes you feel enriched and depleted, genuinely connected and wildly insufficient, What Falls from the Sky reveals a new way to look up from your screens and live with palms wide open in a world brimming with the good gifts of God.

Author : Bruce Epperly
Publisher : Harding House Publishing, Incorporated/Anamcharabooks
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1625247869

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God Online by Bruce Epperly Pdf

Bruce Epperly guides his spiritual Internet manual with insights that help us to claim our vocation as God's companions in healing the world-through the vehicle of social media and other online interactions.

Author : Mark A. Kellner
Publisher : Wiley Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1568848439

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God on the Internet by Mark A. Kellner Pdf

Religious and computer columnist Mark Kellner begins with an overview of the Internet and various online services and moves on to more detailed descriptions of religious resources available on each service. This book explains where to find everything from the Book of Mormon online to a tour of the Vatican's artwork. Interspersed throughout the book are examples of how people use the Internet for religious experiences.

Author : William A. Stahl
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554587933

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God and the Chip by William A. Stahl Pdf

Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A. Stahl, is an unacknowledged mysticism, an implicit religion. By not acknowledging this mysticism, we have become critically short of ethical and intellectual resources with which to understand and confront changes brought on by technology.

Author : Meghan O'Gieblyn
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525562719

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God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn Pdf

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.

Author : Evgeny Morozov
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781610391399

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To Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency? What if some such problems are simply vices in disguise? What if some friction in communication is productive and some hypocrisy in politics necessary? The temptation of the digital age is to fix everything -- from crime to corruption to pollution to obesity -- by digitally quantifying, tracking, or gamifying behavior. But when we change the motivations for our moral, ethical, and civic behavior we may also change the very nature of that behavior. Technology, Evgeny Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvement -- but only if we keep solutionism in check and learn to appreciate the imperfections of liberal democracy. Some of those imperfections are not accidental but by design. Arguing that we badly need a new, post-Internet way to debate the moral consequences of digital technologies, To Save Everything, Click Here warns against a world of seamless efficiency, where everyone is forced to wear Silicon Valley's digital straitjacket.

Author : Nicholas Carr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393079368

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Pdf

Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”—from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer—Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic—a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption—and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection. Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes—Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive—even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.

Author : Charles Ess
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0791428710

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Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication by Charles Ess Pdf

The rush to the Information Superhighway and the transition to an Information Age have enormous political, ethical, and religious consequences. The essays collected here develop both interdisciplinary and international perspectives on privacy, critical thinking and literacy, democratization, gender, religion, and the very nature of the revolution promised in cyberspace. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand and reflect upon these events and issues.

Author : Christopher W. Boerl,Katie Donbavand
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443882897

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A God More Powerful Than Yours by Christopher W. Boerl,Katie Donbavand Pdf

Throughout American history, religious movements have repeatedly proved themselves to be powerful forces capable of masterfully manipulating the social and political landscape of the nation. Key to the influence religious organizations have historically held in the United States is their use of communication technologies. In this vivid account, Christopher Boerl and Katie Donbavand adroitly weave a rich narrative illuminating the effects various historical phenomena have had and the reactionary religious response which followed. Through shifting social norms and political realities, the authors also show the role media has played in nurturing religious movements and fanaticism. Broadcast media in particular is identified as a unique conduit through which the now dominant, conservative articulation of Christianity both took root in the United States and flourished as an imposing cultural standard. More recently, new communication technologies, such as the Internet and social media, have usurped the reign of broadcast media. In so doing, these technologies are serving as a form of religious pluralization and theological fragmentation. In short, new communications technologies are fragmenting a once homogenous religious body, and, in so doing, proving that some gods are more powerful than others.

Author : Isabel Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351517157

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God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson Pdf

The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published in 1943, Isabel Paterson's work provided fresh intellectual support for the endangered American belief in individual rights, limited government, and economic freedom. The crisis of today's collectivized nations would not have surprised Paterson; in The God of the Machine, she had explored the reasons for collectivism's failure. Her book placed her in the vanguard of the free-enterprise movement now sweeping the world.Paterson sees the individual creative mind as the dynamo of history, and respect for the individual's God-given rights as the precondition for the enormous release of energy that produced the modern world. She sees capitalist institutions as the machinery through which human energy works, and government as a device properly used merely to cut off power to activities that threaten personal liberty.Paterson applies her general theory to particular issues in contemporary life, such as education, .social welfare, and the causes of economic distress. She severely criticizes all but minimal application of government, including governmental interventions that most people have long taken for granted. The God of the Machine offers a challenging perspective on the continuing, worldwide debate about the nature of freedom, the uses of power, and the prospects of human betterment.Stephen Cox's substantial introduction to The God of the Machine is a comprehensive and enlightening account of Paterson's colorful life and work. He describes The God of the Machine as "not just theory, but rhapsody, satire, diatribe, poetic narrative." Paterson's work continues to be relevant because "it exposes the moral and practical failures of collectivism, failures that are now almost universally acknowledged but are still far from universally understo

Author : Anthony A Eddy
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781950860562

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GOD Speaks to Man on The Internet by Anthony A Eddy Pdf

The authoring of man requires the name of man declared on each book’s existence: such as are seeking to be numbered by the governance of man; the governance of man who rejects God as an author— who insists it be a man. The authoring of God requires the name of man called to be His scribe— who honours well the sourcing enabling the book’s existence. Foolish and forsaken is he who would lie or falsely claim to author what he has not— whilst knowing well he is a scribe called, from within the household of God, for imparting His word both to the end-time Bride and to the multitudes at large. Foolish in deed is he who would decry the living God of love; who would deny the ability of God to convey His words in depth of meaning; in the conciseness of His words with brevity of truth; in the cadence of His words as they fall upon the ears of man; in His choice to speak via the English tongue in both this time and age— where it is assured of great value in bringing comprehension to the future of man: as decided within each lifetime, as directed by freewill choices— those arising with the freedom from the gifting cross— with the welcoming of the law as to be evident in the new testament: then waiting in the wings where the curtain has exploded; in the encoding of His spoken lines as He gathered such in their groupings.