Ch 7.3 - Technology
"In wilderness, I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia." – Charles Lindberg
Narrative: Our technology is amazing. Nothing bad could ever happen with all the scientific advances we’ve discovered. The internet is secure. Trusting computers to manage our lives has been one of the smartest things humanity has ever done. Artificial intelligence is a force for good. Someday we will all live in a utopia where there will be no starvation, war, or violence. The future is looking bright.
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a. Technology
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"Any sufficeintly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
"Your ancestors called it magic, but you call it science. I come from a land where they are one and the same." - Thor
"Magic is just science we don't understand yet." - Thor
"They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen." - Romans 1:25 KJV
"'We cannot take all the credit for our record advancements in certain scientific fields alone; we have been helped!' When asked by whom, he replied: 'The people of other worlds!'" - Dr. Hermann Oberth, 1974 - Rocket Scientist
"Little insight from the Consumer Electronics Show. What I am seeing is truly frightening. At this show it gives you a glimpse of what is on the horrizon for electronics. It is for insiders that own stores and companies to plan and make decisions on which way things are going. The metaverse is it. OMG. Everybody has goggles on and testing out the new insanity. The 3D Hologram stuff is near perfect. You can put on a suit...and gloves and feel your virtual surroundings. You can pick up things and they feel and look real and they are not real. Somebody will come up to you and touch you on your shoulder in the virtual world and it feels real. Imagine what is going to happen to the **** industry? I see the future as nobody leaving their house...or showering for days as you wander the virtual world in your weirdo suit. Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, etc are showing off how powerful their 8K TV's are. They are all flexible and paper thin. LG has a wall and ceiling of 300+ 8K flexible TV's all around you...side by side and above you with images and sound that would make you fall over. If you ever watched the movie Minority Report. That is what this entire show looks like (the mall scene). Another scary demo was the drone area. These drone companies were showing off their military grade FLIR technology and how it can track down anything moving from high in the sky in 4k and 8k. We are so screwed. I did not tell you this..." - take action, Zerohedge
Technology has passed through three waves. The first wave was the agricultural revolution. The second wave was the industrial revolution. The third wave represents the information, computer-based revolution. Toffler forecasted the speed of the internet and email, interactive media, cable television, cloning, and other digital advancements. He claimed that one of the side effects of the digital age is 'information overload,' another term he coined.
"A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. This new civilization brings with it new family styles; changed ways of working, loving, and living; a new economy; new political conflicts; and beyond all this an altered consciousness as well...The dawn of this new civilization is the single most explosive fact of our lifetimes." - Alvin Toffler, from The Third Wave (1980)
"We have now, in fact, reached a point in human evolution — and all that I am saying is in accordance with the apocalyptic presentation — when in a certain way, humanity is confronted by the need for a decision. We have already shown that in our age, an enormous amount of mental and spiritual energy is used to provide for the lowest needs; we have shown how the telephone, telegraph, railway, steamboat, and other things still to come have absorbed a tremendous amount of spiritual force; they are only used for the mere satisfaction of lower human needs." - R. Steiner (1908)
"None of this crap could have been pulled off in the 1990’s --> technology 1 human 0 Without smartphones connecting just about everyone, none of the lockdowns, masking and mass vaccination would never have been possible." - Unknown
"ask someone how much you would need to pay them to not use a modern smartphone/iPhone. Or ask a business how much they would have to be paid to not use modern western tech in their business. The difference between that price they say, and what is currently being charged by these companies, is the value that the US government will be able to continue to extract via money printing and deficits." - Dan on the TechDollar
"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life." - John F. Kennedy
"Which world would you rather live in? Sanitized, meaningless science world. Or divine, beautiful, creationism world?" - Unknown
Anytime a man or woman begins to play God, they're way out of their league Because making a self-centered, egotistical species their own gods sounds like a great idea...
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." - Unknown
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” - Isaac Asimov
"The most important parts of Western technology can be based under 4 headings:
- Ability to kill; development of weapons
- Ability to preserve life; development of sanitation and medical services
- Ability to produce both food and industrial goods
- Improvements in transportation and communications" - Tragedy and Hope
"In the manner of death of civilizations it comes down to technology. We invented worse first. Not fair. But here we are." - Fowler in Blue Eye Samurai after soldiers armed with muskets mow down an army of samurai warriors
"We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity." ― Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works
b. Robots/Drones
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”Fellow executives. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the future of law enforcement. ED-209.” - Robocop
“We are a few years away from being hunted down and enslaved by those dancing Boston Dynamics Robots and Dogs.” - Unknown
"I see these things, and the first thing I think of... is all the Evil things our Govt is going to be able to do with this technology." - Unknown
"'Humanoid' robots that can dance and pick up eggs resonate with people, but they're not the future of robotics. They're just eyecatching song-and-dance that distract the masses while the autonomous killer drones and submersibles are being perfected. " - Unknown
"I'll shoot my 30-06 and spit some beechnut on it..." - Unknown
"Battery and CPU are located [at the center front of the robot dog]. The limb articulators are located at the top of the four limbs. I would recommend 62-grain green tip penetrators because [the robot dogs] will be armor-plated. If you don't have access to that, paintballs will be effective at disabling the cameras. However, it is easily reversible. Another option would be to do a 50/50 mix of old engine oil, oil-based paint (black), and a good dose of sand into a balloon. The sand will gum up the works, and the paint will be very difficult to remove. Act accordingly." - Unknown, on how to disable a robot dog. The author neglects to mention the dog will likely have a 50 caliber machine gun mounted to the top along with infrared computer vision, so getting close enough to hit the dog with a paint balloon will be difficult.
c. Computer Networks/Hackers
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"If the internet hackers are such a threat to our way of life then why are they trying to connect everything to the internet? What happens when someone hacks your car while you're driving on the freeway? What happens when human bodies embedded with sensors get hacked?" - Unknown
Internet of Things - Everything with on/off switch connected to the internet - controlled remotely
Internet of Bodies - Ingestible sensors - controlled remotely
"Every smartphone and computer made since 2008 has a backdoor. It listens for a magic number, and when it encounters that, it'll self-destruct. They can't shut down the Internet. They can disable 99%+'s access to modern communication methods. This is the cyber pandemic they're talking about." - Bitcoin420k
"Adama: It's an integrated computer network, and I will not have it aboard this ship.
Roslyn: I heard you're one of those people. You're actually afraid of computers.
Adama: No, there are many computers on this ship, but they're not networked.
Roslyn: A computerized network would simply make it faster and easier for the teachers to be able to...
Adama: Let me explain something to you. Many good men and women lost their lives aboard this ship because someone wanted a faster computer to make life easier. I'm sorry that I'm inconveniencing you or the teachers, but I will not allow a networked computerized system aboard this ship while I'm in command. Is that clear?" - Battlestar Galactica, Adama, and Rosyln arguing about computer networks and how they make us vulnerable to hackers
"Before the pandemic, I wrote a lot about digital security. Well, the lack thereof. I once compared what we are doing to building skyscraper favelas in code - in earthquake zones.” - Zeynep Tufekci
"Modern warfare these days is all about a 'networked environment.' But what happens when such things that make a modern military work breakdown? How would America's armed forces fight if their computers crashed, could not communicate, or were hit with massive viruses? What then?” - Unknown
"A useful way to think about this is to take any piece of equipment and strip out its ability to talk to another piece of equipment. If your cell phone did not have access to a computer network, how efficiently could it operate? Could it operate at all?" - Unknown
Why do my refrigerator and washer/dryer need Wi-Fi connections anyway? Next will be my electric shaver or my wife’s curling iron.
d. Transhumanism
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"Atheists are always desperate to live forever because, on some level, they know they are going to Hell." - Unknown
Those with money and power always try to elevate their status with the latest gadgets. Whether it's Google Glass, Apple Watches, Facebook Meta Headsets, or Elon Musk's Neuralink, everyone is looking for any kind of advantage they can get here in the real world.
"Our obsession with longevity and staying useful is a symptom of our lack of fulfillment due to the disruption of the power process. If we live lives full of autonomous struggle toward goals that directly met our biological needs we would be more at ease with aging and death." - Love Your Work Podcast
"It is not the primitive man who has used his body daily for practical purposes who fears the deterioration of age, but the modern man who has never had a practical use for his body beyond walking from his car to his house." - Ted Kacynski (Unabomber)
"We are already cyborgs. Our memory is overwhelmingly outsourced to computers – they remember everything with extreme precision down to the pixel." - Elon Musk
It's actually worse. Most people can't even make the change at the cash register without using their phone for help. Transhumanism is an extinction-level event.
"We want the ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but once we have it, who knows what else we might do with such ability?" - Yuval Harari, Homo Deus (FYI - Deus means god in Latin)
The Transhumanists are midwits imagining themselves to be Gods. When they say transhumanist, they don't mean turning you into a superman. They mean modifying you into a castrated gimp incapable of rebellion. The next step in human evolution looks like this:
Noble 1.0 - Male/Female genders procreating via selective breeding/inbreeding
Noble 2.0 - Immortal elite demi-gods
Serf 1.0 - Male/Female genders procreating via natural breeding
Serf 2.0 - Genderless castes of worker bees serving the elite
“[Neuralink is a] brain-computer interface [that] is fully implantable, cosmetically invisible, and designed to let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go.” - Neuralink website
If Neuralink can be used by your brain to control a computer, what if they can use Neuralink and a computer to control your brain?!
"neural implants. for placing positive suggestions in your cortex. I *can* do a better job. I *can* lift another heavy box. I *can* hold my pee for six more hours. - love and hive, amazon" - Unknown
"Human! We used to be exactly like them. Flawed. Weak. Organic. But we evolved to include the synthetic. Now we use both to attain perfection. Your goal should be the same as ours. By assimilating other races into our collective, we are bringing them closer to perfection." -Star Trek, The Borg
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile." - Star Trek, The Borg
"What very often occurs is that an elite will get to an old ripe age and die. Or they will die in some sort of accident publicly. Privately they are taken and depending on their level they are either age regressed or they have their consciousness downloaded into a clone that is an exact duplicate of them. They then disappear from the public eye forever and go into these programs or go into retirement. This is something that pops up a lot in the programs. And everyone that has served deeply know that the elite have access and that many of them never die." - Unknown
Humans are made from clay. Wires are made from iron. Another verse warns us not to mix the two together:
"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." - Daniel 2:43
This isn’t just a warning for the masses. The elites we serve should also be careful what they wish for. Where genetics have failed, elites will attempt to lengthen their lifespan through calorie restriction, organ transplants, stem cells, or downloading their consciousness into a computer. There's a famous verse in the Bible that discusses this:
"And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them." - Revelation 9:6 KJV
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