What Technologists Can Learn From Religions

In 1994, Umberto Eco famously wrote that the Macintosh was Catholic and that DOS was Protestant. While he was mostly speaking in jest, I am increasingly convinced that modern internet platforms have as much to learn from religious history as they do from corporate history.

Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystems, for example, have a lot in common with decentralized religions like Judaism and Sikhism. Meanwhile, the centralized social platforms have a lot in common with religions like Catholicism.