More and more each day I am convinced that the Internet represents a profound new technology that will transform human society and give us the opportunity to make a quantum leap in the evolution of our species. Just as the printing press and movable type helped transform the Medieval world into the Modern world, and catalyzed the Protestant Revolution (implementing Christianity 2.0 the home edition), the Internet seems to be catalyzing something equally profound, though perhaps only beginning to take shape.

Just as printing technology had a major impact on the practice on the Christian religion, the Internet seems very likely to have an equally game-changing affect on contemporary religious and spiritual practice. Simplistically the Reformation was all about creating new denominations of Christianity that featured (from an information infrastructure point of view) removal of gatekeepers (priests) and direct access to the underlying information (the now ubiquitously available printed Bible). A person need only own or have access to and read that Bible to have all the wisdom they needed to live an ethical life.

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