[Hoot Gibson]

My belief is that only one thing can make one happy in this life. At some point, every man who has realized his zenith in this world, has to face his own demons. Sooner or later the rat race ends, the kids move out (that one hurt) and you are left with yourself and what you believe. For some, there's comfort in their Savior. The problem is this, the wisdom of man, though incredible and as yet unfulfilled, doesn't satisfy. Nor does financial security. Once the chase is over, whether due to one's age or the realization of wealth, what's left? Lunch? Further, I believe God will allow man to reach only so high with his accomplishments.

The scripture I think about with regard to that is Genesis 11:5-9 (KJV)


5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.


We don't have any speech barriers in our time. We instead have suprecomputers which interface so much information so fast, we can't even articulate it in terms. Knowledge used to double every so often as follows; Right now and over the past 100 years it doubles twice as fast each time. So from 1900 it doubled by 1920, 1920-1930,1930-1935, and so on, (Wiki) These days it happens so fast we don't even have a handle on how long it takes anymore.
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http://www.androidtech.com/knowledge-blo...bling.html

The point is this, if man can indeed accomplish anything he can imagine, how much more knowledge can we really master and still remain master over our own knowledge?

I agree. The premise of The Terminator movies is not at all far fetched (except maybe the travel back in time parts). We are nearing the point where we will be able to manufacture computers that can out think the smartest man and improve upon the programs created by humans. Such a computer will have no language barriers and would easily navigate the various protocols of connected networks.

As long as a human being can pull the plug on such a computer, we will remain its master, but some military organization will eventually pair such a computer with a self defense system. If anything, reality has already surpassed the imaginations of the best science fiction writers of the last century. I smile every time that I see a really old sci-fi movie with spaceships packed with huge computers with flashing lights and analog gauges.

Fifty years ago, sci-fi writers could not even imagine that instruments with digital displays would ever be developed. Yet, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the invention of the LED. Undoubtedly, there are similarly obscure inventions in today's labs that will have far reaching impact on the lives of our grandchildren. We face an interesting and dangerous future where men will eventually compete with machines.