Technopaganism
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Technopaganism is a sub-belief that is closely related to Urban Shamanism. It is the belief that magic can affect technological processes as well as natural processes. It is a relatively new area of Paganism, being around only for the last thirty years or so.
Parts of this field include using modern day devices in magical ritual. For instance some Technopagans use their oven for a hearth. They might keep a "Disk of Shadows" instead of a "Book of Shadows". Others will sometimes use stones and other charms to help improve the performance of mundane items. One common one is placing a lodestone on top of your computer tower. (One should note however, it is rarely advisable to place any sort of magnetic substance near a computer.)
For some an essential belief of Technopaganism is the belief of the spiritual side of technology. They believe that items, such as your car, can become inhabited by a pseudo-spirit or thought-form if they have enough human contact. The theory is that if you invest enough of your energy into the device, it will take on a personality of its own and react accordingly. This also extends to a city itself. Each city can have its own pseudo-personality according to the people that live in it. As a sub-belief of this, many Technopagans also believe that things such as buildings, roads, parks and other such items have pseudo-spirits, or totem spirits, of their own.
One belief that faces substantial objections is that the Internet itself is attaining a pseudo-spirit. Indeed, it is the stated objective of the creator of VRML to bring about the merging of the spiritual world with the physical world.
The term technopaganism can also be used in relation to a combination of affinity to technology and some kind of pagan (Wiccan, gothic) worldview found relatively often in computer and internet subcultures.