David Noble鈥檚 latest history traces the ascetic and millennarian religious
impulses driving Western technological progress. From the Carolingian
re-evaluation of the 鈥渦seful arts鈥� to the Masonic invention of modern
engineering and the rapturous imaginings of America鈥檚 Cold War warriors, The
Religion of Technology is a thorough, if humourless, antidote to the feeling
that our machines are driving themselves. Published by Knopf, $26, ISBN
0679425640.
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