Sharon K. Gilbert & Josh Peck – Rocky Mountain Int’l Prophecy Conference
2016-09-16
Science, technology, and Bible prophecyContinue Reading
Free will is an illusion?
2016-05-01
Stories like this make my head hurt. Maybe I’m just not smart enough to get my head around the implications. Or maybe the whole notion, which is apparently gaining traction among academics, is just stupid: Free will might be an illusion created by our brains, scientists might have proved. HumansContinue Reading
Building the watch again
2016-02-28
Josh Peck honored me this weekend with an invitation to guest on his excellent program The Sharpening Report.Continue Reading
Open source A.I.
2015-12-13
TECH VISIONARIES have formed a new non-profit artificial intelligence startup. The goal is to make sure the first true AI is “good”. Click here for the notes and the audio.Continue Reading
Dehumanizing the world
2015-11-30
THE DEHUMANIZATION of Planet Earth continues as we make way for Humanity 2.0. Click here for the notes and this week’s P.I.D. Radio.Continue Reading
I am remiss: Derek on Like Flint Radio
2015-11-23
My friends Cliff and GK graciously had me as a guest on their excellent program recently, Like Flint Radio, where we talked about dominionism, transhumanism, and Syria. Click here for the show notes and to hear the program.Continue Reading
Robots and Russians
2015-11-09
Today we discuss the drive for immortality through technology, which to us sounds like a recipe for Hell on Earth, and several stories related to Russia and its reemergence as a geopolitical force. Click here for the show notes and mp3 file.Continue Reading
The Pentagon’s Brain
2015-10-08
SINCE ITS creation in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department’s most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Click here for the interview with investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen about her new book The Pentagon’s Brain.Continue Reading
Deathists
2015-06-03
Transhumanist Party presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan suggests that the 85% of the world who believe in life after death are a major obstacle to attaining immortality. He feels that we “deathists” are so eager to reach our eternal reward that we will resist a technological upgrade, and that we will consider transhumanism a blasphemous desire to become gods.
Probably right on both counts.Continue Reading
The gods are dead; long live the Cybergods
2015-01-24
Sharon mentioned a recent article by philosophy professor John G. Messerly in a science update she produced for SkyWatchTV. In his column, Messerly argues that religion is “the enemy of the future.” Ironically, his worldview isn’t new; it’s as old as human history.
Read the rest at Rise of the Cybergods.Continue Reading