Technology and Freedom

 

After those nine wrecks I told you about in a previous blog, I learned to drive, well, sort of, anyway. Technology helps me.

Vehicles make driving easier because they come with safety features. The backup camera is handy, and my car beeps when I’m close to a curb or another vehicle.  After a few hours of driving, my ride tells me it is time for coffee.

Do you like riding in a car with no driver? I’ve never done that yet, but it looks scary.

Technology is changing the way we do everything. I haven’t learned how to operate all the old stuff before the new comes along.

I heard Elon Musk say that in a few years, cell phones will be extinct. Wow!  Really? He says we will use AI. How will we get to AI? Will we have a chip in our bodies so we can talk to AI any time we need to?

I don’t care for that idea. The Holy Spirit lives within me, and He’s enough. I don’t want an intelligence residing in my body, other than God’s or mine.

I have found AI useful in my design work. I can ask AI to bring a room into existence with my specifications, and it does. This helps me show clients what their space will look like with my ideas. If they don’t like it, I can change it. Before AI, I had to convince them with color boards and sketches.

When it becomes possible to have AI inside your brain, will you allow it?  I hope when that day arrives, we still have a nation of freedom, and you can say no.  However, during Covid, we received a government mandate to take a vaccine. Many lost jobs because they refused the vaccine.

Our government should never force citizens to take a medicine or substance. It should be a choice. I believe in vaccinations, and I’m happy they exist. Polio was wiped out because Jonas Salk discovered the answer. People chose to take it.

Schools soon required students to receive it, and it saved lives. Having said this, I continue to say this: I believe it is better to have a choice about what protects our lives than authorities forcing us into taking it. Most of us will choose the medicine.

But! I will not choose to have a chip with AI placed into my body or brain.

When my husband needed a heart procedure, his team of doctors discussed the situation. Hubby told them what he wouldn’t allow, and they told him what else was available. Together, they made a good decision.

Technology is changing! Don’t give up your freedom to choose!

In my new book, Kade uses technology to kill men.

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