The Religion of Technology

&i;`In case you have ever wondered why modern Man devotes so much time and energy to space exploration and other extraterrestrial activities, instead of cleaning up the mess he has made on Earth with his intrusive and resource-depleting technology, the author of this erudite work spells it out for you in painful but compelling detail...David Noble tackles the Goliath of age-old misconceptions, the widely held belief that religion and technology are somehow antithetical to one another - opposite ends of the spectrum of human behaviour, as it were...&o; Gard Binney in The Ecologist