Religion and IT

Abstract

Religion - from an evolutionary point of view - can be called the very first information business of humankind. The medicine man, the priest, the witch doctor were indeed the first institutions to deal with information only. Their core business was to provide information on the transcendent that is not directly present and accessible: the will of the goddess, the sense of life, what may come after death ... . Information that is well sought after – today like in the early days. So over time many answers have been given on these and other religious topics all over the world. Formally spoken a huge amount of information has been produced in the various religions.