Cultural Engineering in the Planetary Age: AI, Techno-Religion, and the Crisis of Human Consciousness
The planetary age is not merely a technological transition but a profound reconfiguration of human existence. As artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures, and algorithmic systems reshape the production of knowledge and the structure of perception, culture itself becomes engineered rather than inherited. This essay explores how techno-religion, automated knowledge, and the acceleration of digital life are transforming human consciousness, religious behavior, and social reality. Drawing on key works in future studies, AI theory, and moral psychology, it argues that the greatest crisis of our time is not technological—but existential: the gradual erosion of human interior life in a system designed to predict, shape, and control thought itself.
