I argue in my essay  The Internet is God that new technology not only changes how we work but how we think as well. It happened with the wheel, with the printing press and now with The Internet.

As The Internet progresses and adapts, it provides us with new ways of interacting. It gives us a voice. The Internet is also unusual in that rather than having hubs where everything is controlled, it largely abdicates control. No one owns The Internet.

My argument is that this provides a new analogy for God. The Internet God accommodates to an absolute truth or a relative truth.  The Internet God can transcend geography and national boundaries. It can handle specifics and generalities, emotion, intellect, love and hate.

In one sense, this is simply to restate the old addage that God is Man. But the more I think about the Internet as a metaphor for God, the more it seems to reward my attention. Perhaps in the future we will look back at the arrival of The Internet not so much as a technological achievement as a contribution to philosophical and religious thought.

The birth of The Internet may come to be seen not just for its scientific and sociological importance but also as a moment in history when our understanding of the world, and our place in it, shifted.

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