Out of RWTH Aachen ́s cooperation with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai/ India (IITM) the contribution will demonstrate the immense influence of religious contexts on digitization. While western technology was deeply influenced by

Christian and Humanist thought, future digital technologies may be influenced by Hinduism, Daoism and Confucianism.

The present impact of Asian mainstream cultures that is without mentioning indigenous influences can be divided into 2 pathways, Confucianism and Hindu assertions.

(1) Nowadays digital design in China follows principles such as immutability, transparency, governance, and regulation in order to seek a design principle for a better (digital) world. These principles are grounded in Confucianism.

(2) While reimagining the digital through Hindu Religious Philosophy the apocalyptic science fiction of Ramayana 3000 has become popular. Here the ancient story of Rama is being restructured as an ongoing history that aims to imagine a future in which humans through their domestication by machines will fulfill the Ramayana.

Finally, one can conclude that the synthesis of religion and digital solutions such as AI or blockchain crosses the disciplines not by chance but by deeply culturally rooted world views. The tension of our time is that we experience the decolonization of technology together with its indigenization. The gaps between the current designs of the digital and the design principles of specific cultures will not be closed through one global use of items but through restructuring contextualities and different perceptions of only superficial decontextualized data.