I find it hard to believe no one’s worshipping the Internet yet as a deity. What’s up with people? As fad-following as people can be, there’s got to be a few folks out there who think the Internet is God. But I can’t find them. I’ve Googled “Internet as religion” and “people who worship on the Internet,” (etc.) but I haven’t found anything yet. This is something I’ve been waiting for for quite some time now, too. It’s an integral part of an idea I’ve been stirring up, about the relationship between humanity and technology, but for the idea to be fulfilled I really need some wackos somewhere out there to form the official Most Holy Church of the Sublime Internet. I’m very disappointed that it hasn’t happened yet. Let me know if you’ve heard of something I haven’t…
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July 23rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Start your own. It worked out for another famous SF writer. ;)
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
When the internet “wakes up”, people will come to it. All that singularity mumbo-jumbo.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
There’s one in “American Gods” if that helps.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I want to be the Patron Saint of LOLCATS.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
@Ken: I think about that all the time.
@Steve: That’s one book I haven’t read yet…I’ll have to pick it up. Reason is, I read Neverwhere and just didn’t like it at all. When AG came out, my first thought was that I’d hate it, so I never gave it a go. But the more I hear of AG, the more it sounds like I should read it.
@Matt: LOLCATS 3:14 reads: Yea though Matt Staggs walked through the valley of the shadow of puppies, he feared no cuddliness, for he was surrounded by niceties of all sorts…or, y’know, something like that :-)