How Did You Develop a Brain That Synthesizes Technology and Spirituality?

I grew up in a very religious family and I had large passages of Bible memorized as a child. It was actually shortly after I left Christianity that I first encountered that Ray Kurzweil book, The Aegis Spiritual Machines. And so the book was really an attempt to try to trace those ideas and put them in conversation with one another. What is the history of people talking about technology and religion in the same breath? We don't often hear those terms spoken of but there is deep history of thinkers who put those ideas in talks with each other.