The Religion of Technology : The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
by David F. Noble
The Amazon site it worth it for the reviews. See also: the review by John McLaughlin, which begins:
“In a recent review for the online journal Kairos, I referred to Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines as a brilliant book “with a hole in the middle.” That hole was the lack of any extended discussion of the concept of spirituality, in the context of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and photon-based computing, Kurzweil’s actual subjects. What could “spirituality” mean in such a context?”