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From Gondishapur to Silicon Valley

by Paul Emberson
ISBN: 2904991433
Publisher: Etheric Dimensions Press
Format: Hardback

Price: £30

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From Gondishapur to Silicon Valley
VOLUME 1: Spiritual Forces in the development of data processing and the future of computer technology

CHAPTER 1
In search of truth
What is meant by evil
Manners the redemption of evil
Condition pool brackets are coming of the beast

CHAPTER 2
The birth of the binary system
Harun al-Raschid
The Synod of Constantinople
Michael's Regency
The Doctor Angelicus
Lord Francis Bacon of Verulam
The universal cipher
The quest for Wisdom
The binary code - from theory to practice

CHAPTER 3
The loom of intelligence
The city of Light
The knights Templars
Darkness over Paris (the victory of the beast)
Lyon in the Renaissance
The hub of Freemasonry
The web that would become worldwide
An epoch-making invention
Aesthetic experience and the binary code



CHAPTER 4
From idols to computer
The war between Michael and the idols
"Mary had a little lamb..."
The brothers of light
A people rejoices in its strength

CHAPTER 5
The spirit of Aristotle in the 20th century
The dawn of the age of light
Computers and the Michael movement
The breaking of the German people

CHAPTER 6
The battle for super sensible consciousness
Computers and the subconscious mind
Rudolf Steiner's dilemma
Battle is joined
Death is a change not an end
Chaos and computerisation (the Beast triumphant)

CHAPTER 7
Beware the Asuras
Dehomag - the machines of inhumanity
The Turing machine
From truth to untruth
The truth
Univeral machines
Intrinsic fallibility of computing devices
The end of originality
Adolf Hitler
Negative superstition


CHAPTER 8
The fall into matter
Silicon Valley
The Internet
World Wide web (the Dominion of the Beast)
Electricity and the erotic forces
lightning streams of bits...
Linking our brains to the Internet

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461 pages
hardback with no dustcover
silk ribbon page marker
7 colour, 1 BW full-page illustrations
 

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