MODERN TECHNOLOGY

1. You in the Technology or control environment: The very alarm systems in your homes, schools and church are leading up to this; one adt poster said, “a sign of the times”. The best example of this is an old movie called Colossus or a modern one call Fortress. The technology does everything for you so it’s inevitable that you’d be dependent on it. Spin offs from this might be even weather control, holographic systems or what is seen in the movie matrix on the surface; that’s why in the ICI document I’d touch on the delusion of avatars – your personal holographic you in cyberspace. Larry Gosshorn continues, ‘In the new smart programs you will have three dimensional graphics. What does this mean? They can bring an image through your television set, using holograms and place a life-sized person in front of your television set by the bending of light beams, and you could not tell if that person was alive unless you would place your hand in the light beam. “ This could also be how the Anti-Christ will do it, seeing that the word image as in image of the Beast is translated from the Greek “eikon”, where we get the word icon from – check your Strongs or Crosswalk Greek interlinear. Gosshorn continues, “ ‘An image of the Beast…’ It will have a ghost-form of life. The technology can take on spirit’ … these systems will have knowledge bases. This means that you can talk to it and ask it questions. It stores the knowledge of the experts…knowledge is now doubling every three years…There is no way mankind can keep up with the doubling of knowledge like this. So they are building knowledge-based systems… You can buy the product for your home computer and eventually this image system can be plugged in and you can talk to this knowledge. You will also be able to interact with it.” Larry Gosshorn continues, “In January, an article appeared in The Wall Street Journal. The article revealed that the first product is now hitting the market. It is called “artificial reality.” You put on gloves and glasses and interact with this system. You become a part of the system. Timothy O’Leary said, “This is further out than any LSD trip you can ever imagine.” There is one that is porno where lust comes out of it so great that people could interact with these images in a lust activity.” This sick computer devilry will not only make you be in connection with A.I or other human spirits, but devils; it would have evolved in what is seen in the Matrix but your soul disembodies into a computer generated environment coated into your avatar interacting with other disembodied beings.
   
   The movie “Demolition Man” portraits this sex holographic contraption when Sylvester Stallone, having beam into the future by cryogenics, decides to have sex with the co-star. She then got out some equipment for them to have sex with the mind. He asked in utter confusion what was this, she said that’s how we do it now. He frustratingly asked why, what about the old fashion way. She said that they were countless STD’s now out there that people stop having sex the normal way and did it this way. She then said to him that in your time it was Aids, gonorrhea etc, but after a certain period then came this and that until it was too risky to have sex. He asked how then do you have babies. She replied that it was done by going to the hospital and carry out a procedure similar to test tube conceptions. This was a movie, which usually patterns what they want to do. How far it gets I don’t know but by this simple rational you see that it can seem feasible and with the babies, they simple want to grow them rather than have you have them – another long story away from immediate technology. Larry Gosshorn concluded about this coming techno environment by saying, “All they will be packaging up satan’s way in a new form which will deceive all mankind.” You are always at the mercy of the one who controls the house or more precisely, the environment.
   
   
   1. You become the Technology: This includes cyborgs which were dealt with earlier. But it also involves computer inserts, which might be the mark of the Beast. Then there is a new trend that is introduced, which many don’t realize will ensnare them – that is, techno clothes or wearable technology. One person describes this as, “technology will fuse with the human form.” This article by David Pescovitz, a talented writer for several magazines, will shed some light on what this is. This article also indirectly suggests that this could also be or is apart of the mark of beast – though the scriptures clearly states that we shall receive it in our hands or forehead, but not how; because they also a device that can digitally tattoo a number to your skin. David Pescovitz writes:
      
      ”BODY TECH”
      
      ”Less than 30 years later, cell phones are practically comparable with Dick Tracy's wrist radio, and handheld personal digital assistants have nearly made the Filofax obsolete. Meanwhile, Levi Strauss & Co., Nike, and even IBM are putting a fashionable face on totable technology.
      
      Combine wireless Internet access with a just announced full-blown PC the size of a matchbox and new eyeglasses rigged with a tiny video display, and you can search an online restaurant guide to find the best vegetarian dim sum as you see the sights in Chinatown

      . Or comparison-shop online while you're browsing in a brick-and-mortar retailer. Or add a tiny video camera and stream your child's fun in the park to your spouse stuck at work. And that's just what you can do today. In the foreseeable future is technology under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory that enables your body to act as the conduit for your own Personal Area Network. Imagine, you shake hands with someone and instantly exchange digital business cards, which are stored in tiny computers hidden in the soles of your shoes-the data streamed as low-power electricity right through your body. Inspector Gadget, meet the Six Million Dollar Man. "Instead of intelligent highways, smart rooms, smart floors and smart television sets, we should consider having 'smart people,"' says Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto and pioneer of wearable computing. I briefly met Mann in person several years ago; his reputation preceded him. I had heard tales of a small group at the MIT Media Lab, where Mann studied, who nearly all their waking hours wore headgear rigged with small screens and cameras controlled by bulky belts packed with sensors, microprocessors and batteries. They were exploring issues of constant connectivity, electronic surveillance, and what they called "augmented reality," online information continuously streamed into their field of view. Mann told me that he was designing "second-brain devices that were true extensions of the mind and body."  In casual conversation with me, Mann seemed chronically distracted-either I bored him, or he was checking his e-mail, or both. Ironically, he came across as more machine than, well, Mann. And the feeling of alienation I was flooded with when we spoke was certainly something to reckon with. Today wearable-computing contraptions have shrunk tremendously, yet the issues of techno-etiquette, privacy and human-computer interaction that Mann and his colleagues have raised are bigger than ever….
      
      So it's interesting to think about how the design of future devio could be less intrusive." One way to do that, Donath suggests, is to take a step back from technofetishism, in this case technology for technology's sake, and ask basic psychological questions about how we use the devices we already own. For example what is it about a wearable computer as simple as a cell phone that we find so annoying? Answer: people talking on them. And therein lies the irony. The very act of withdrawing from the public space in order to take a call is also an act of intrusion. Chatting on the go is one thing, but running into an on call mobile worker at a party is a whole different story.  Quite simply, you can't have two conversations at once. Or can you? Text messaging, where short missives are fired back and forth wirelessly via pagerlike devices or cell phones, is extremely successful in Europe

      and Asia

      , Donath notes. Handheld e-mail devices from Motorola and Research in Motion are available in this country as well, and make use of tiny keyboards and small LCD screens as interfaces. On the recent crop of Web-enabled cell phones, you input text by scrolling through the characters on the keypad. The practical beauty of these devices is that during your down time in public spaces you can keep the channels of communication open without tuning out the world around you. The design challenge then is to develop the ultimate input device for wearable computers. Michael Jenkins, Xybernaut's vice president and chief technology officer, foresees scenarios like a homeowner reading instructions for building a deck via an eyeglass display instead of running indoors to rewind the home-improvement video. But he's quick to point out that "you're not going into a bar on a Friday night wearing this thing."
      
      You would though-if the gear weren't too geeky. Instead of uploading the directions to your deck, envision accessing a digital address book complete with digital snapshots to your wearable device. You run into someone at the pub who seems to know you quite well, but you're drawing a total blank on their name. A tiny video camera built into your eyeglasses snaps their mug and the PC scans your database until it matches their face. Instantly, a secret reminder pops up in the corner of your eye with a reminder of who you're talking to and how they know you. But before video cameras and eyeglasses with onboard screens become hip fashion accessories, product designers must destroy the stigma associated with wearing your technology on your sleeve. That's one idea behind ICD+ {which stands for Industrial Clothing Division}, a new line of clothing from jeans giant Levi's and Philips Electronics that merges utility wear with wearable computing. The ICD+ line launched four jackets for on-the-job urban nomads. Each style which are sort of Mad Max meets Car hart is tricked out with a cell phone, an MP3 player and a chest-mounted remote control enabling easy operation. The devices are linked by wiring in the coat's lining so that each bit of electronics works hand-in-hand with the rest. For instance, when a call comes in, the volume of music from the MP3 device automatically lowers. Each coat is targeted to a specific industry-the all climate Producer jacket, with numerous pockets, is aimed at on-the-set Hollywood

      types while the durable Beetle jacket is custom-built for scooter couriers on delivery trips. The clothing is planned for modularity: The jackets could link with yet-to-be-announced garments like shirts with keypads in the sleeves, for instance. Dry-clean only? Nope. The devices are removable; the wiring impervious to water. Currently, the first jackets are undergoing ER, beta-testing in Europe

      . Only 2,500 of the $1,000 coats were produced. If the jackets catch on, mass production paired with the ever-dropping cost of mobile electronics will likely lower the price of the ICD+ line. Regardless, the big barrier to U.S.

      introduction is the incompatibility between European and u.s.

      wireless communication networks. "Levi's is famous for developing the first workwear, the first denim jeans for the gold miners in the 1850S," says Peter Bas, Levi's brand manager for the ICD+ line. "Now with this new line we are pioneering new forms of workwear, for the new modern worker, the new gold miner." Make that data miner, the 21^st century counterpart. While Levi's is using the ICD+ line to target "millennial workers"-road warriors of one sort of another-other companies are going directly for the mainstream with fashionable wearable technology. Nike is integrating MP3 players into its sportswear, and Sallsonite launched their Black label Travel Wear line, rigged with simple devices like reading lamps and alarm clocks. Even IBM, the quintessential example of corporate geek doll, is dabbling in computer couture these days. While one division of Big Blue is collaborating with Xybernaut on the next generation of wearable computing for commercial applications, IBM's future-forward Almaden Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is developing a line of digital jewelry created by Denise Chan, a recent graduate of Stanford's School of Engineering, who hooked up with the company at a job fair. As legend has it, the idea was sparked by an out-of-character comment from Almaden Director Robert Morris, who muttered that he' d be willing to pierce his ears if it negated the need to wear a headset for mobile communication. The result? Demo devices like earrings with tiny onboard speakers and a ring with a built-in Track Point, the nipple-like cursor controller found on IBM ThinkPads. Further along are the elegant offerings of Charmed Technology, a Los Angeles

      firm that spun out of the MIT Media Lab to commercialize wearable-computing couture. Indeed, the CTO of the company is Thad Starner, who, along with fellow Media Lab alum Mann, the first cyborg I closely encountered, are arguably the preeminent envelope pushers in wearable computing. Currently, the company is best known for its successful series of Brave New Unwired World fashion shows which merge spacey runway fashion with wearable technology from numerous developers, including Xybernaut, Motorola and others. Their first two signature products, due out this month (2000), include the Charmed Communicator, a PC in a belt buckle with a display inside sunglasses; and the Charmed Badge, which automatically transmits its wearer's electronic business card to other users via infrared. Katrina Barillova {who formerly worked in the security surveillance industry) is the 27-Year-old Czechoslovakia

      born chief operating officer of Charmed. "People are afraid to look like cyborgs," she has said. "Our goal is to make technology fashionable and to incorporate these items into everyday lifestyles." While Charmed, along with Levi's, IBM and other comies, is racing toward making aesthetic improvements of today's wearable computing, the social impact of the technology's far-future applications remain largely unresolved. And the annoying symphony of cell-phone rings is just the first cue encouraging us to consider how wearable technology can become as banal as it is empowering. Extrapolate a scenario from this example: the impressively inexpensive yet conceptually advanced key-ring computer, the Japanese Lovegety. Users enter into the Tamagotchi-like device whether they're in the mood for "love," "chat," .'drink" or "movie" and the Lovegety beeps whenever they're within 30 feet of another Lovegety carrying individual with whom they're "compatible." Now expand the Lovegety's preference possibilities (foreign films, loves kids, etc.) along with its range, so it can cover entire neighborhoods or even towns. " At its worst, it turns every city into a giant singles bar," Donath says. A next-generation Lovegety could bring the "Buddy Lists" of virtual chatrooms into the physical realm, providing a pleasant surprise by alerting you that your best friend happens to be the next cafe over, or tracking your child if she's lost. The key for designers is to incorporate a host of custom-control features into the product, enabling you to block what information you'd like to broadcast and to pick and choose who receives it. "Wearable computers are not handcuffs," Pratt says. "No one forces you to wear them."
      
      True, but even if you're not wearing one they still can make you feel like a prisoner of the datasphere. Take the research of ph.D. candidate Bradley Rhodes at the MIT Media Lab. Rhodes has designed a system he calls a Remembrance Agent, a program that continuously "watches over the shoulder" of the wearer of a wearable computer and displays one-line summaries of notes, files, old e-mail, papers and other text information that might be helpful to the user at any given moment. The benefits of having a Remembrance Agent in your peripheral vision are enormous. Picture wandering around a museum and having background on each artifact you see automatically pop into view. Or the notes from a , talk someone gave that you saw several years ago displayed in your peripheral vision the instant you shake that person's hand in real life. Now imagine meeting a person wearing a Remembrance Agent system at a dinner party. As soon as your name is entered into his wearable computer, either transmitted by the likes of a Charmed Badge, or entered manually, a full web search of you begins. The problem (actually, not a problem), is that a person is much more than their home page, resume or list of favorite films. "The physical world around us has lots of information in it that we are subconsciously picking up," Donath says. "When we add a whole new data-stream, we really need to think about how we control it, especially when you could be paying attention to it later. Otherwise, you may lose a lot of subtle, hard-to-articulate information if you're looking at a person's Web site instead of into their eyes." Turning off the Remembrance Agent may be akin to dispensing with a built-in bullshit detector. But you can always do your Web search after the party ends, instead of missing out on the very things that make us yearn for real-world interaction to begin with. "I'm curious to what extent people are going to adapt to these new devices as opposed to the devices' adapting to , our existing mores." Donath adds. And, lest we forget, there's always the "off" switch.” [Who will control that is the Anti-Christ and his forces, be careful you’re not deceived. The mere fact you have a cell phone suggests that you have already begun in the deception.]

   
   All three aspects of technology are working together, complimentary to each other or even vital to the other. The purpose is to deceive and ensnare the soul. We will later find out that the UFO phenomenon is a ploy by satan and his angels. I said that because I want to make a quote by Jaques Valle about Modern technology, he is the most renowned astro-physicist. He said, “I believe there is a machinery of mass manipulation behind the UFO phenomenon…they are helping create a new belief system...they are designed to help change belief systems, and that the technology we observe is only the incidental support for a world-wide enterprise of subliminal seduction.” Or, in essence, deception. My suggestion is that “having food and raiment let us be therewith content” (1 Tim 6:8). Because gain is not godliness but “But godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Tim 6:6). Another thing, this is a great distraction from God and the techno fad chasers are ensnaring their own souls and others unawares. Remember, most things around us that are demonology will never look that way, that’s why the bible keeps telling us that the devil “deceive the nations” – that is, masked the evil with convenience and benefits.
   
   

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