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Robert M. Geraci

Robert M Geraci is the Knight Distinguished Chair for the Study of Religion & Culture at Knox College (Galesburg, IL). He is the author of five books, including Futureproofing Humanity: Existential Risk and the Technomyths of Human Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Future Among the Stars. 

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Religion Dispatches

Can Silicon Valley Solve America's Housing Crisis (and the Aging Process) With Utopian Cities?

There’s always a darker side to building a new city upon a hill.
In a recent New York Times “Ideas” piece , “Maybe America Needs Some New Cities,” housing and urban development reporter Conor Dougherty writes of a new kind of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship that…
Robert M. Geraci
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Religion Dispatches

Via Jokes, ChatGPT Chooses Which Religious Traditions and Figures Deserve Respect — And Therefore What Counts as 'Religion'

ChatGPT is all the rage. It even drives some people into a rage. It does some remarkable things, it does some outrageous things, it does some absurd things. Most things it does badly, such as tell you…
Robert M. Geraci
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Religion Dispatches

Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us From Suffering and Enchant the World?

After a few years hiding in the basements of techno-enthusiasts, virtual reality is back in the limelight. Just in time for a new Matrix movie, Facebook rebranded itself as Meta and tried to take…
Robert M. Geraci
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