Posted on 10/11/2021 2:41:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
You really have to keep a watchful eye on technological advancement. The super geeks who create the marvels of tomorrow very often become consumed in what can be done technologically, forgetting and forsaking the question of whether or not something should be done. As we continue to advance in areas like genetic engineering, quantum physics, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and other bleeding edge sciences, eventually there will be little the human race is prevented from doing if we so desire.
Already you can completely change your appearance in ways seemingly magical to people a hundred years ago. Fatter lips, smaller nose, bigger boobs, a larger booty, different color eyes... hell, you can even up and decide nature was wrong and become a chromosome-inconsistent replica of the opposite sex through an array of procedures, hormones, and other services offered by modern medical science.
Today, Elon Musk is pushing current Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the limits with self-driving cars. Tomorrow, he will offer you a chance to be as smart as AI. He will present to you a cerebral interface from which you can tie your brain directly into the collective knowledge of the human race. Never you mind that un-hackable technology doesn't exist -- never has, never will -- and your likely very expensive interface may leave your entire mind exposed to sabotage, compromise, and total control. At least you'll be able to do a Google search and find your favorite porn videos as quick as you can think.
All the stuff above is bad (in my opinion), but at least there exists much individual liberty and personal choice involved.
Here's your really scary story to tell in the dark for the rest of Halloween month. Vaccine mandates are terrible, not even the tyrants who institute them are fans.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“...eventually there will be little the human race is prevented from doing if we so desire...”
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Author is likely an atheist.
When it comes to laughably overestimating the capacity of mere humans to control their environment and determine the fine points of their destiny and their medium- and long-term future on esrth, there is nothing like foolishly denying that there is or ever was an omniscient and all-powerful God.
“bleeding edge sciences”
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Cutting edge? Or Bleeding heart?
Author’s a regular Yogi Berra in the way he mixes metaphors.
Let's give the author the benefit of the doubt. He was indulging in some hyperbole.
Regards,
This is a very widespread and intentional mixed metaphor, and is - I think - apt in the context in which it is used here.
Regards,
Jane Hawk series by Koontz goes into this, and that’s a writer who does his research.
The Elderly women in my Sunday School class were the first to receive the shot. Now, we are seeing a wave of cancer (mostly skin and breast)
Is there a connection? We really don’t know. Because, the vaccines were never tested for long term effects.
He comes across as a star-struck college freshman.
In fact, I think it is becoming a little too common, a bit cliche, at least in IT circles.
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