The New Gnostics

I was once at the hospital, with an elderly man who was holding the hand of his dying wife.  He had been the founder of an electronics firm that made advanced computer components.  He said that computers were the most dangerous invention ever.  He expressed, in a more aggressive fashion, that our modern addiction to digital information, in the form of videos, web pages, social media, texts, etc., and our belief that Google can truly enlighten us, is leading us to a new age of Gnosticism.  We consider the history of Gnosticism, and what we need today to regain our natural, pure relationship with the true source of spiritual knowledge.