ABSTRACT
The one manifest aspect of contemporary society, not just in the United States or the Western world, but all over the globe and in all cultures, is the dynamic presence of scientific technology. The term techno-secularism was introduced by this author's article, "Athens, Jerusalem, and the Arrival of Techno-Secularism" in 2005, for the 40th anniversary issue of Zygon, Journal of Religion and Science, which was an expanded version of the piece that originally appeared in Modern Age in 2002. There is no philosopher of technology who has presented an explicit or full argument for "Techno-secular ethics", but this is because it presently exists in a form that is assumed rather than articulated; nonetheless, its effects can be seen and the principles inductively arrived at. Technological ethics is as a matter of principle hedonistic, approximately on the level of an upper-middle-class lifestyle even if not in the sense of promoting excessive indulgence in physical appetites.
