Volume 26, Issue 4
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Knowledge Increasing (Continued from Page 3)
The first crude automobile — a self-propelled vehicle — came about in 1770 with a “steam-powered carriage.” In 1880, Karl Benz, a Ger- man engineer, built the first lightweight, three-wheeled motorcar, powered by gaso- line. And by the early 1900s, cars as we know them today started to be- come commonplace. Within just 20 years, and with Henry Ford making cars af- fordable for the average per- son, the horse and buggy were quickly being replaced. I could also mention the development of railroads, but suffice to say, people are now easily able to go “to and fro” — we have supersonic air travel, luxury cruise ships, and automobiles are now simply taken for granted. And the average new car today has more technology built into it that most can comprehend, in- cluding GPS for navigation and radar to avoid colli- sions. The first microprocessor was invented in 1971, paving the way for electronic devices and personal com- puters. I remember when the first hand-held calcula- tor was invented. It cost a fortune. Now you can get them at the dollar store. Within 20 years, the World Wide Web had been in- vented, leading to the devel- opment of social media, e-commerce and all that the internet entails. I can also remember, when I was a young child, we had a “party line” for our tele- phone. You might pick up the phone to make a call and find one of your neigh- bors having a conversation with someone else and you’d need to wait your turn. But cell phones became com- monplace in the 1990s, and by 2007 the amazingly stun- ning features of the first iPhone were shown to the world. With this device, you could not only make calls, but send text messages with a more normal keypad, you could store your music col- lection on it, access the in- ternet, and it even became your camera. Little did we realize that those cell phones would quickly be- come our “slave trackers” that people would take with them everywhere they went. And not only carry them everywhere voluntarily, but they’d panic if somehow, they forgot them.
The first AM radio broad- casts were government mes- sages sent out in the early 1900s. The invention of vacuum tubes brought radio into ordinary people’s homes in the 1920s. Then, fre- quency-modulated radio, or FM radio for short, was in- vented in 1933. Meanwhile, the first practical use of tel- evision happened in 1927. Three years later, we had the first TV commercial broad- cast, and the BBC began regular TV transmissions. There were only 200 televi- sion sets in use in the world in 1936, but by the 1940s, cable TV was introduced to rural areas, and by the ‘50s, most homes in America had given up radio for television. When I was young, we had three channels to choose from. Four, if you counted PBS, which aired on UHF frequency and was often hard to tune in. Today, most homes are equipped with SMART TVs, and over- the-air broadcasting is still in use, but only by about 14% of the population. Most today either use cable or satellite TV services, with hundreds of channels avail- able, or some form of inter- net streaming service with literally thousands of op- tions for programming. And speaking of the in- crease in knowledge, we’re no longer limited to getting information from newspa- pers, radio and television broadcasts. Today, we can access information on liter- ally any topic through the internet or our hand-held phones instantly, with mil- lions of websites, main- stream and alternative news media, and countless plat- forms with a variety of con- tent from news and information to an infinite number of specialized top- ics. We can also send mes- sages around the world in- stantly through texting and email. We can even “video chat” with people on the other side of the world in real time, instantly. I’ve read that in 1900, human knowledge doubled every 100 years. By the end of 1945, the rate had come down to every 25 years, and by 1982, our knowledge doubled every 13 months. I’ve also read that within the coming year, and through the use of Artificial Intelli- gence, which is rapidly ex- panding, human knowledge will double every twelve
hours!
Degrees and Ph.D.s that don’t have even an ounce of common sense. But we can be assured of this, because we find it in the only source of truth that still exists in this world — God’s Holy Word: “The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” Amen! Email: Rob@WisconsinChristianNews.com Phone: (715) 486-8066
I can’t comprehend the rapid advancement of knowledge in the world. But knowledge is not really knowledge when people are using AI. In my research, I’ve discovered that many college students today are using AI to do their assign- ments. For example, they may need a 15-page re- search report, which would take many weeks to study, research, and write. Today, they can simply tell “AI” to write the report — on any specialized topic — and in less than a minute, they’ll have a fully com- pleted article, documented with footnotes and sources...which they’ve not only not researched them- selves, but in many cases, they’ve never even read the article they turn in for a grade. College professors can no longer tell the dif- ference between work the student has done and work the student used AI to complete. Today the so-called “elite” want to include human minds in the “Internet of Things.” They’re talking about brain implants to connect human beings with Artificial Intelligence. Might this be how Satan and his demons will be able to once again turn “every thought of every man only evil all the time?” Understand that Satan is not omnipresent and is not omnipotent. But by con- necting all of mankind into a supercomputer artificial “brain,” there will be no more private thoughts, no more critical thinking. In fact, no need for anyone to think at all. AI will do our thinking for us, and very likely, individuals tied into this system won’t be al- lowed to think. It’s truly mind-boggling when you think how much knowledge has increased just in the past 100 years, and how exponentially it continues to increase. Just about anything you purchase today becomes “outdated technology” within just a few months, or even a few weeks. But friends, always re- member, “knowledge” isn’t really knowledge if we don’t understand what we’re dealing with. And cer- tainly, knowledge is not wisdom. There are many highly educated college graduates with Master’s
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