silicon valley https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to silicon valley en Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/12/sit-down-and-shut-pulling-mindfulness-its-buddhist-roots “Wisdom 2.0?” meditation teacher Kenneth Folk has famously pondered. “That’s a networking opportunity with a light dressing of Buddhism.” If mindfulness has gone corporate, then Wisdom 2.0 is its annual shareholder meeting. The yearly conference hosts tech royalty alongside media… Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:15:20 EDT Max Zahn 2facea40-fbd2-4a07-a8f2-9e03b31f94dd "What's the Relationship of Technology to God?": A Q&A with Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/16/whats-relationship-technology-god-qa-wired-co-founder-kevin-kelly Total surveillance, an emergent sharing economy, pervasive networked AI—these are just a few of the technological worlds that Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly predicts for our near future. In his new book, The Inevitable, Kelly argues that these and other technological… Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:20:09 EDT Shannon Trosper Schorey 5fffe36b-973f-4ef9-bd42-ebadd5ad81c4 The Tech-Christian Apologist Who Demolished Gawker https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/10/tech-christian-apologist-who-demolished-gawker Libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel takes his Christian faith seriously. Fri, 10 Jun 2016 03:04:44 EDT Michael Schulson 225e97a6-97f9-4c92-ac3b-c2ea8ce4d0fa "Even the Rich Suffer": An Interview with Google's Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/26/even-rich-suffer-interview-googles-jolly-good-fellow-chade-meng-tan If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A software engineer from Singapore, Tan joined Google in 2000 as employee number 107. He later founded the company’s in-house… Tue, 26 Apr 2016 04:00:21 EDT Max Zahn fc3da582-63fd-4923-8f6c-593b7944fb73 Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/07/zen-and-art-zombie-killing-buddhist-anti-tech-manifesto Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps technology’s unstoppable progress—ever more pervasive and persuasive—has grabbed us in a fearful malaise at the thought of being involuntarily controlled.” We worry that we’ve… Thu, 07 Apr 2016 07:36:55 EDT Max Zahn 1fdf7c9c-664c-410f-bf3c-f724c33254ff TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/18/ted-evangelism-harkens-back-forgotten-19th-century-tradition The top ten most watched TED talks are, in order, about: Creativity Confidence Motivation Vulnerability The Brain Really Cool Technology Orgasm Motivation Motivation Really Cool Science But actually the top ten TED talks are all about you. They’re about the… Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:05:22 EST Michael Schulson 3864ebdd-22d2-4c2b-b170-87c89c673846 The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/11/moral-bankruptcy-silicon-valley-asceticism In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers simple advice: go through all of your possessions, one by one, and ask yourself, “Does this bring me joy?” If the answer is “no,” then… Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:32:04 EDT Vlad Chituc 0d349399-bb7e-45a0-93b8-3f86a1d2378c Google-Phonics, Or, 'What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?' https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/12/google-phonics-or-what-sound-thousand-tech-workers-meditating Google’s mindfulness guru wants to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars. Fri, 12 Dec 2014 03:35:52 EST Kevin Healey 3c14a5a9-9473-4966-a6e1-5f37601691fc When the Steve Jobs/Apple/Religion Analogy Goes Too Far https://religiondispatches.org/2013/09/04/when-steve-jobsapplereligion-analogy-goes-too-far Sometimes an apple is just an apple. Wed, 04 Sep 2013 01:52:44 EDT Michael Schulson c3365d75-4a51-4ac8-987f-75e17317864f Steve Jobs (1955-2011): Death of a Human Tech God? https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/03/steve-jobs-1955-2011-death-human-tech-god Mac is Catholic, DOS is Protestant. Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:44:36 EST Elizabeth Drescher 6bc018ad-6a44-4f8d-8131-0ebab6d7760b Steve Jobs Reincarnated as Divine Half-Yak https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/23/steve-jobs-reincarnated-divine-half-yak Welcome to iHeaven. Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:47:09 EDT Andrew Aghapour d02dc49d-2e62-4363-9577-67835e19daa5 Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/16/steve-jobs-occupywallst-and-usury Steve Jobs invented stuff, and that stuff changed the world. Wed, 16 May 2012 04:20:58 EDT Jay Michaelson beae246f-94e6-4ffa-a190-5d9704579626 The Ghost Is More Important Than The Machine: Norman Corwin (1910-2011) https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/24/ghost-more-important-machine-norman-corwin-1910-2011 Reeling from the death of Steve Jobs earlier this month, the world might now mourn another visionary who made technology an intimate part of our lives. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:25:48 EDT Peter Manseau b2bb4791-7a62-4309-b9a1-95def7140afd