“Greg Epstein makes the best case yet for why we have to withhold our faith from technology before its values become the given circumstances of our reality. Just because you're not programming these intelligences doesn't mean they're not programming you. There's still time to retrieve and celebrate our shared humanity, together. This book points the way.”
Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human, Survival of the Richest, and Present Shock
“The tech world needs to face up to how strange we have become. We have become religious without admitting it to ourselves. The book will help broaden perspectives. I urge anyone with influence in tech culture to read it.”
Jaron Lanier, author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Account Right Now, Who Owns the Future, and You Are Not a Gadget
“An exciting intellectual adventure, Epstein's ingenious book is sometimes deeply moving and vulnerable, occasionally chuckle-out-loud funny, and always insightful. This timely and urgently important meditation inspired me to completely rethink my relationship to technology.”
Skye C. Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic
“If tech is a religion, then there is no better guide than Greg Epstein. Informed, honest, and deeply urgent, Tech Agnostic leads us straight to the source of Silicon Valley dogma and, crucially, back out again with reason to hope.”
Lauren F. Klein, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Emory University; coauthor of Data Feminism
“Tech Agnostic is a thought-provoking exploration of the challenges that our species faces in its uncertain new allegiance with tech. But it also delivers a hopeful path toward engaging more humanely. Eloquently written, Epstein's book provides a thoughtful field guide for challenges and opportunities we face in our modern tech-obsessed world.”
Laurie Santos, Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College, Yale University; host of The Happiness Lab podcast
“Greg Epstein shines light on our very human tendency to find gods that we can worship, and he makes a powerful case for the hazards of doing this with tech. Written with warmth and wisdom, Tech Agnostic lays out an alternate path of humanism that keeps compassion at the heart of the digital revolution.”
Robert Waldinger, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Roshi (Zen Master), Living Vow Zen; coauthor of The Good Life
“Greg Epstein's new barnburner of a book arrives at precisely the moment we need it most. Crisply written and insightful, Tech Agnostic offers a thoughtful way forward as we stare down the specter of AI.”
Lee McIntyre, author of On Disinformation
“A wide-ranging, provocative, and energetic deep dive into the role that technology plays in our lives.”
Kirkus Reviews
“[A] disturbing trend is exposed in Greg Epstein's Tech Agnostic. He argues that the major religion of our times is now to be found in the world of technology. His book acts as a warning and a means of discovering a way out.”
The Bookseller
"Epstein is not anti-technology. He's not even a tech minimalist. But he hopes the book will help people navigate and evaluate tech's promises...He hopes to provide readers with the confidence to be skeptical of magical claims from those selling social media, artificial intelligence, or cryptocurrency."
The Boston Globe
“Epstein may well be our 21st-century Luther pounding on the digital Wittenberg door.”
The Presbyterian Outlook
Longlisted for Porchlight's Best Business Books of 2024, Big Ideas and New Perspectives category
