He says it is coming for his life — so forcefully that he already feels himself entering a kind of death throes. It is that spiritual relationship and spiritual experience have steadily receded from their lives. Hampshire’s anguish therefore requires terms that narrow his audience beyond both secular techno-optimists and secular techno-pessimists. Against that experience, Hampshire senses something close to satanic oppression. Secular pessimists and optimists alike may find it bizarre to conclude that those most devoted to God should be our most trustworthy guides in wielding tools that would inspire the envy of Zeus and Mephistopheles.