The digital revolution is undoubtedly the most disruptive technological shift in the history of mankind. The internet, combined with advances in computational powers, has also profoundly affected and altered human behaviour. This difference is what makes the disruptive nature of digital particularly interesting to study. It is precisely because the penetration of digital technologies runs so deep into our daily lives, and because its ability to manipulate, control and distort is so complete, that the digital revolution now calls for a creative theological and philosophical responses.
We live today under the spell of cybernetics. If we are to be masters of our machines, we must first understand the meaning of mechanics, cybernetics, and the philosophy of computers. ‘Spiritual Cybernetics’ is, I propose, the spiritual animation of computers and information systems, in which the ‘spirit’ of computers is the free ‘steering’ of human and more-than-human users, and such use is free insofar as it knows how to use its tools for its own ends.
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Spiritual Cybernetics