Did God Create The Internet

A book that dares to describe individualism as a religion and paint a reality that is primarily virtual, rather than physical. While the authors don’t mind challenging the reader’s view of the self and the world, their main intention is to induce passive receivers of the future to become more active participants. Engaging observations and perceptive interpretations of contemporary society.

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2016 Book List. Finalist, Best Thriller of 2016, Pacific Book Awards. A deadly and exhilarating game of cat and mouse that has all the makings of an engaging series about fighting terrorists. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, Juliana al-Dossari is a woman with a mission. When terrorist hackers threaten to disrupt water and power systems in Boston, Dallas, and Los Angeles, she joins her husband and a team of white hat hackers to track them down. With few technical skills but plenty of courage, Juliana quickly learns how to navigate the dangerous waters of the internet in order to save her city. But using her knowledge comes at a high price - her marriage and her children are threatened if she fails. Filled with action, suspense and intrigue, God of the Internet is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you resisting to pause until the very end. GOD OF THE INTERNET is a delightfully frightening, completely realistic fictional depiction of a new face of terrorism. -IndieReader Five stars. In a real thrill ride of a read, God of the Internet...will grab readers from the very first pages, and keep them obsessively turning...all the way through until the very end. -Readers' Favorite Five stars. Lipinski has constructed a thriller based on elements that are intricately intertwined today-the internet, the family, and terrorism. In this fast paced potboiler, digital derring-do shares page space with familial obligations and international intrigue. -Pacific Book Review

Victim No More! Have you ever felt like something was holding you back? Do you feel like you cannot let go of a certain moment in your life? Do you feel like if you could just let go of that particular hour, day, month, year, or decade, your current life would be completely different? Your love life, your marriage, your passion, your peace, your friendships, your career, your relationships in your family, and most importantly, the way you feel about yourself and the world would be different! Have you ever wondered why time does not heal old wounds? Did you think that you were the only one? Do you wear a smile but inside you feel completely different? Do you have a secret that you have never told anyone? Do you have feelings about yourself you don’t dare speak out loud? Do you feel like no matter how many steps forward you make there is always something stopping you from arriving to where you know you deserve or want to be? Do you want to learn how to thrive instead of just survive? You will learn how to heal and move forward to a life beyond your dreams. Then this book is for you.

Religious and computer columnist Mark Kellner begins with an overview of the Internet and various online services and moves on to more detailed descriptions of religious resources available on each service. This book explains where to find everything from the Book of Mormon online to a tour of the Vatican's artwork. Interspersed throughout the book are examples of how people use the Internet for religious experiences.

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.