Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg Epstein
Published 2024 · 100,925 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Politics & Society, Religion & Spirituality, Essays & Criticism
How hard is Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation to read?
Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation scores 35 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 35 out of 100
- Epstein writes for a general audience and borrows religious terms like apostate, heretic and reformation to describe tech culture. The register is clear and public-facing, closer to Atomic Habits than to scholarly prose.
- Sentence structure: 35 out of 100
- A trade nonfiction book from MIT Press aimed at general readers, with direct and readable sentences. It lacks the nested clauses of academic philosophy.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- The book builds on the abstract analogy of technology as religion, but grounds it in companies, engineers and historical dissenters. It sits above Atomic Habits in abstraction because it argues about belief, ethics and power.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- It covers religious history, the tech industry and ethics across about 100,000 words, with a steady stream of examples. Reviewers call the history and analysis rigorous, yet the pace stays that of a trade book.
How Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation is regarded
Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation holds a literary regard score of 29 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.