Stanislaw Lem’s Futurism (2014)

Where Aquinas argued for the certainty of a Creator, an immortal soul, and eternal salvation as based on scripture, Lem concerned himself with the uncertain future of intelligence and technology throughout the universe, guided by the tenets of modern science. Most surprising of all, in subsequent conversations I confirmed my suspicions that among the masters of our technological universe gathered there in San Francisco to forge a transhuman future, very few were familiar with the book or, for that matter, with Lem. Considering a planetary civilization this way, Lem posits a set of feedbacks between the stability of a society and its degree of technological development.

Source: nautil.us