Longlisted for the 2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards in the Big Ideas and New Perspectives category
Featured in TIME, Publishers Weekly, the Next Big Idea Club, the Boston Globe, Politico, the Guardian, PBS’s Closer to Truth, and more
“A wide-ranging, provocative, and energetic deep dive into the role that technology plays in our lives.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Epstein is not anti-technology. He’s not even a tech minimalist. But he hopes the book will help people navigate and evaluate tech’s promises…He hopes to provide readers with the confidence to be skeptical of magical claims from those selling social media, artificial intelligence, or cryptocurrency.”
—The Boston Globe
“In his new book, Tech Agnostic, Greg Epstein explores the idea that “tech”, by which he means modern digital technology, is a new global religion, with messianic leaders, dutiful followers, daily rituals of worship, and an inescapable influence on all facets of life.”
—The Observer/The Guardian
“Epstein spent the past several years examining the rising power of tech through the lens of faith and came away with the belief that tech is now ‘the world’s most powerful religion’ — and all of us its unwitting congregants. ‘We need a reformation,’ he argues.”
—Politico
“Greg Epstein’s Tech Agnostic is a prophetic call to a better relationship with tech, a society and economy where people matter more than profits.”
—Public Books
“Mr. Epstein is at his best when he brings religious scholarship to his research on tech to offer original analysis. His observations are intriguing and perceptive.”
—The Economist
“[A] disturbing trend is exposed in Greg Epstein’s Tech Agnostic. He argues that the major religion of our times is now to be found in the world of technology. His book acts as a warning and a means of discovering a way out.”
—The Bookseller
“Those interested in not only how tech has become a superimposed structure over our society, but also how something might be done about it, will find a lot to meditate on in this book.”
—Shelf Awareness
“Greg M. Epstein, the humanist rabbi who serves as a chaplain at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has long focused on the ethical questions surrounding technology and our dependence on it. And his new book, Tech Agnostic, explores how our devotion to tech became a religious faith, what the implications of that belief are for the way we live today, and what a reformation might look like — a questioning, agnostic movement that might turn the powerful tools of technology to the service of humanity rather than capital.”
—The Ink
“Epstein may well be our 21st-century Luther pounding on the digital Wittenberg door.”
—The Presbyterian Outlook
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