In chapter two “Historical Origins on the Digital Crisis”, I begin to learn how society needs to understand how religious history fits in today todays digital culture. Silicon Valley has developed a vice and virtue culture among the tech companies. In doing so, this creates a set of ideological beliefs for Silicon Valley. A quote that stood out to me from this chapter was, “proponents have used such imagery to suggest that the Internet is, or should be,beyond the reach of government.But just as the open spaces of the Western frontier soon became “farmed and fenced” (Davis 1998, p. 108), the digital frontier became privatized and commercialized, despite popular notions that its essence was uniquely resistant to markets and bureaucracies” (42). I liked this quote because, even though no one technically ‘owns’ the internet, obviously a hierarchy of websites will form. Now there is a capitalistic culture found within the internet. For example, people prefer their web browsers, such as FireFox, Google, Safari, and an ample more. Religious history fits into all of this because, in the technology culture people use religious terms to build systems, set goals, and talk about their beliefs. In doing this, society begins to blur the lines between religion and technology. I believe there is religion around technology beyond using the belief system. I believe they also try to get people to buy their products using religion. I say this because people now define themselves as ‘Apple’ or ‘Samsung’ people. Almost like the tech companies themselves have a religious-like following.
Digital Proverbs 