RT @nick_routledge: @amicusadastra @lukeburgis Speak of the devil. History following an apocalyptic logic goes both ways, of course - the advance of a dark corruption, yes, but simultaneously conjoined with humanity's equally mysterious vocation to betterment. Until, that is, 'apocalypsis', our moment of vision and decision.
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@LondonFfP @Bin_Bayyah Curious if a US presence was represented at your convivium? Its IT sages, on this trail for a while, are keenly alert to the threats and promise posed by ongoing, evolving trends in computer-mediated experience, and their larger, planetary, theo-political implications.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Kevin Kelly in two bodies Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 3 Here's Kevin / People who work Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: 3/ Here's Kevin Kelly, for example, widely recognized as one of the world's most insightful technology philosophers. "We were once the People of the Book. But today, with more than five billion digital screens, we are now the People of the Screen." Quote Tweet: Nick Routledge “People who work with computers have an evolving sense of godhead that is different from the ideas of non-nerds.” @kevin2kelly
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 4 Kevin's Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @franxstrax @MassimoFaggioli 4/ Kevin’s was one of first voices alluding to the sacerdotal implications of information technology, the larger significance of a seismic evolutionary shift in which billions of hearts and minds are now inter-connected in one, common, electronic universe.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Teilhard de Chardin in nested post Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 5 Meanwhile / Cosmos > Cosmogenesis Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Quote tweet: Nick Routledge · and 5/ Meanwhile, the reality-shifting implications of this planetary concatenation of consciousness have long been anticipated. Teilhard de Chardin's final diary entry in 1955, alluded specifically to the central place of the noosphere in Christic evolution: Quote Tweet Nick Routledge · “Cosmos > Cosmogenesis > Biogenesis > Noogenesis > Christogenesis” – Teilhard de Chardin.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 6 How might Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @franxstrax @MassimoFaggioli 6/ How might we interpret this phenomenon theologically? What is the inter-spiritual vision of revelation now emerging through a technology finally making possible a truly global gathering, synthesis, integration and summation of the multiplicity of revelations?
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