Intel · Evidence Files
The Evidence Files
The real science behind the fiction — peer-grade research papers on what people chase in technology that they once sought elsewhere.
Technology Worship · Machine Messiahs
A 7–10 paper series. Each paper takes one displaced longing and runs the mismatch proof.
RP-1
The Made God
Why We Worship What We Build
Worshipping the made thing is not a glitch in human history; it is one of its most reliable defaults. Long before anyone built a machine, people poured significance into objects they had carved, cast, or forged — then knelt to receive that significance back as if it had come from elsewhere.
v0.1-preprintChicagoDOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20755127Justin H. Kuiper, CISSP
RP-2
Cargo and Revelation
John Frum and the Anatomy of a Technology Religion
Cargo cults — above all the John Frum movement on Tanna — are the clearest anthropological model of a technology religion: when overwhelming power arrives unexplained, people reverse-engineer it into ritual, reproducing the forms to summon the substance.
v0.1-preprintChicagoDOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20755129Justin H. Kuiper, CISSP
RP-3 onward — in the forge. The series grows as the calculus fills in.