Will Today’s Church Awake To The Transhuman Danger In Time? Or Blindly Assist Antichrist’s Rising?

We old-timers are a stubborn lot. As I mentioned in the last entry, I remember when schools encouraged Bible memorization. I’m relatively tech savvy, but I can see the dangers inherent within the system. Yet, as we age, we fear many things, including losing our memories.

Some of you might recall one of the very first cases of Alzheimer’s to make the news. The actress Rita Hayworth was known throughout Hollywood as hard-living, and her increasingly poor memory and erratic behavior was assumed to be caused by alcohol abuse. However, by 1979, a physician in New York finally determined that her public displays of nudity and shocking speeches at parties had a medical root: plaques within her brain caused by a relatively unknown disease called Alzheimer’s. Hayworth became the first “public face” of this form of dementia.

At the time, Alzheimer’s was rare, but since then, it’s become a catch-all disease, often diagnosed without any brain scan at all, based solely on a physician’s observations. The drug industry for Alzheimer’s is a booming business, but pharmacological therapeutics are quickly giving way to brain implants. As of this moment, well over one hundred thousand people already live with neural implants, and the number will soon explode to include millions.

Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, implants are used in patients suffering from neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, dystonia, and even depression. DBS implants will become commonplace within the next few decades—not only to restore but to augment. Soldiers won’t be the only ones who are connected to a mind-altering device. These DBS implants will soothe our moods and provide access to memories thought lost—perhaps even to memories that aren’t even our own.