Preface: Let me jump from a futuristic space scene to Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. There is a scene where Butch and Sundance are trapped....with only one possible escape....jumping off the cliff into the water. Sundance doesn't want to do it....but Butch keeps pressing him. Sundance finally admits that he can't swim....upon which Butch laughs....and says....."Can't swim? Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you!" So you do not want Jesus to return right now....tribulation and everything like that? To paraphrase Butch...."You don't want to see the Tribulation? AI alone will probably kill you!" Right now we have our head stuck in the sand. If we could really see where this world was headed....instead of just living a life of talking points....we would all look up and say as in the end of the following post from October of 2017........'Maranatha....Lord Jesus, Come!'
"Open The POD Bay Doors HAL....HAL"
A futurist is a person....usually a professional of some sort.....who applies their skills in studying just where society and culture are going. I remember reading Charles A. Reich's The Greening Of America and Alvin Toffler's Future Shock while in College at Pitt in the early 70s when I should have been reading textbooks. Futurists or futurologists can be great novelists...science fiction writers...architects....economists....pretty much anything really if their work is primarily focused on where we are going rather than where we were.
Dan Brown.....mega best-selling author of the Da Vinci Code series....has a new novel out.....Origin. Now I never read any of these books of his nor saw the movies but I have read numerous articles on them and at least one book on the subject.
Drudge has a Reuters news link out right now titled Collective Consciousness To Replace God: Author Dan Brown....the first sentence of which is..."Humanity no longer needs God but may with the help of artificial intelligence develop a new form of collective consciousness that fulfills the role of religion, U.S. author Dan Brown said on Thursday..." The last sentence in the rather short article is another quote by Dan Brown...."Our need for that exterior god, that sits up there and judges....will diminish and eventually disappear. "
Voltaire wasn't a particular good futurologist in that he predicted that within a hundred years the Bible would become extinct. On the other hand, Jesus Christ who wrote the future said as recorded in the Gospel of Luke..."....when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?'
The futurist of today can hardly keep up with technological advances and the news events of the day. Artificial intelligence is not science fiction. Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey revolved around a computer that started killing off the astronauts. What author Arthur C. Clarke's and Kubrick's intention was with HAL we will never know for sure but I prefer to do what Kubrick said and offer my own interpretation....not necessarily on the film but on where artificial intelligence may very well go.....which is.... an impersonal algorithmic 'thinking' device taken over by a personal outside entity.
I haven't even really touched upon the reason that I started this post. We no longer have the luxury of living our lives and paying attention to new giant developments every few years or so. Those developments are coming about every month and even every week....and increasing in the intensity of concern to the discerning. Dan Brown's prediction that God will "diminish and eventually disappear" is not his alone. For many....it's not only a prediction....it's a goal. As dangerous as artificial intelligence is....it is only one....only one area where we are sending mankind into an ultimate slavery while in the process potentially killing off the dead weight and defenseless. All this in this post to ask this one rhetorical question......to make this one point.....knowing what is ahead.....and how evil a society (and the world) can be when God lifts His hand off of it.....which is what is happening.....how can we say and desire anything but......Maranatha....Lord Jesus Come!
