Pokémon Go and the demon-haunted world
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Are Pokémon monsters really “digital demons”?
In Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,” the author makes the case that science makes it impossible to believe in a world of invisible beings.
Now we can understand volcanic eruptions, for example, as natural phenomena caused by plate tectonics rather than the wrath of an angry volcano god lusting for human sacrifice.
Thanks, science!
But what science has destroyed, technology is creating anew.
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