1. Идея Прогресса и дух Апокалипсиса

Technological progress as a religious phenomenon. We discuss David Noble's book "The Religion of Technology" [published in Russian for the first time]. This is the story of how the medieval search for immortality and paradise on earth evolved into modern AI and genetic engineering projects, and how Western science has been inspired for a thousand years by ideas that are now rarely discussed publicly in the scientific community. 00:00 – Introduction 06:16 – The Inseparable Link Between Science and Mythology 12:56 – Technology Doesn't Lead to Paradise: Blessed Augustine's Opinion 18:36 – Paradigm Shift: The Industrial Revolution in Benedictine Monasteries 29:47 – The Apocalypse as the Driver of Scientific and Technological Progress. The Mythology of Chiliasm 41:36 – Joachim of Fiore – Prophet of the Millennium 45:39 – The Franciscans – the heirs of Joachim of Fiore. Roger Bacon. 49:15 – Christopher Columbus in Search of the New Heaven and the New Earth #audiopodcast #audiobook #ReligionTechnology #HistoryOfScience #PodcastOnBooks #Technology #Philosophy #PopScience