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Referencing the Learning Resources below, choose a question from the research project list and answer it in relation to an issue in religion and technology.

Learning Resources

· The internet as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud | Aeon Essays;

https://aeon.co/essays/the-internet-as-an-engine-of-liberation-is-an-innocent-fraud

· Noah Feldman: Politics and religion are technologies | TED Talk | TED.com:

https://www.ted.com/talks/noah_feldman_says_politics_and_religion_are_technologies

· Robert Thurman: We can be Buddhas | TED Talk | TED.com:

https://www.ted.com/talks/bob_thurman_says_we_can_be_buddhas

· Will New Age ideas help us in the high-tech future? | Aeon Essays:

https://aeon.co/essays/will-new-age-ideas-help-us-in-the-high-tech-future

· What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves | Religion Dispatches:

http://religiondispatches.org/automata/

Questions (the research project list)

1. Which      people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by the      technological solution?
2. What      new problems might be created with this new technology?
3. What      sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and      political power because of technological change?
4. What      changes in language are being enforced by new technologies, and what is      being gained and lost by such changes?

This assignment needs to be between 200-300 words.