Software as a Religion ( SaaR) by Ajay Ohri
From the post:
The decline of organized religion and debate about such matters in the Western Hemisphere has been co-related to the increase in debates and arguments (again mostly) in the Western Hemisphere on software. Be it the PC vs Mac, the Microsofties vs Open Sourcers, the not so evil Google versus fans of Facebook, considerable activity is now being done by human beings in terms of social interaction on the merit’s and demerit’s of each software bundle. Perhaps for the first time in human history these interactions are being captured digitally on medium (that is hopefully longer lasting than papyrus).
I like that. Ontologies, folksonomies, taxonomies, Cyc, SUMO, RDF, OWL, topic maps, Description Logic, Formal Logic, Half-way Logic, Graphs, Existential Graphs, Essential Graphs, BCS Graphs, etc., all go unmentioned! Woefully partial listing of religious debates.
Not real sure where the author gets “…hopefully longer lasting that papyrus.” Fairly “recent” specimens are on the order of 4,000 years old. Some texts written in clay are a couple of thousand years older than that. (Allowing for differences in calendars and episodic destruction of entire civilizations.)
What’s your religious flavor?