> The interesting question is, will future technologies push us back to an animist perspective? A future full of unexplainable and incomprehensible AIs seems al

> The interesting question is, will future technologies push us back to an animist perspective? A future full of unexplainable and incomprehensible AIs seems almost naturally animist to me. I call it "the Daemon-Haunted World" after Sagan's book: > "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" is a 1995 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan and co-authored by Ann Druyan,[1] in which the authors aim to explain the scientific method to laypeople and to encourage people to learn critical and skeptical thinking. They explain methods to help distinguish between ideas that are considered valid science and those that can be considered pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and should stand up to rigorous questioning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_haunted_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_haunted_world Just as we are about to defeat superstition once and for all, we populate the world with new "spirits" called "Siri", "Alexa", and "Cortana".