Part III: Digital Salvation and Digital Apocalypse
We live in an unprecedented moment: for the first time in human history, every sacred text could theoretically be preserved forever. Digital platforms promise universal access, infinite copies, and perfect transmission across generations. Yet this same technology introduces vulnerabilities our ancestors never imagined—server failures, format obsolescence, corporate control, and the gradual erosion of embodied practice. Can sacred texts survive in the cloud? What happens when religious communities depend on platforms they don't control? This section examines how digital preservation both rescues and threatens the sacred traditions of the world.