A palm scan to buy food and the “Promethean moment” now upon us
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Amazon’s palm-reading technology is being tested in Panera Bread cafes, but what if such advances were used to monitor our every move? Such a surveillance state is already happening in Russia and China, and with the amount of data we each produce every day, it may not be long before such tech negatively alters life in America. Yet tech like artificial intelligence “represents mankind’s greatest invention to date” according to Thomas Friedman, so how can Christians redeem the opportunities it presents?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | The cultural issues of our day can be like walking through a mind field. Are you ever blindsided by |
| 0:08.5 | questions about faith and culture? Maybe you're asking some of those questions yourself. Find answers |
| 0:15.1 | in our just released Volume 11 of Biblical Insight to Tough Questions where Dr. Jim Denison addresses 10 tough, |
| 0:23.2 | current questions and their biblical responses. |
| 0:26.7 | This volume includes subjects like social media usage, gay marriage, and mental health, among |
| 0:32.8 | others. |
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| 0:52.9 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Wednesday, March the 29th, 2023. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm Chris Elkins from the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:05.7 | If you could order and pay for food with your palm, would you do it? |
| 1:10.8 | Panera Bread Cafe is hoping you'll say yes, |
| 1:14.0 | but first you should know the conditions. You'll obtain a MyPanera membership, then link to an |
| 1:20.0 | Amazon One account that will use your palm scan as payment. The company will then know your name |
| 1:26.2 | and your favorite order at checkout. |
| 1:29.3 | What if advances like this were to be used for more than purchasing a meal? |
| 1:33.3 | What if digital technology were to be employed to monitor everything we do |
| 1:38.3 | and then to punish those who act in ways the monitors disfavor? |
| 1:43.3 | This is happening today. The Kremlin is using |
| 1:46.8 | facial recognition to identify and detain thousands of Russians who disagree with Vladimir Putin's |
| 1:53.6 | policies. According to political scientist Eam and Brimmer's The Power of Crisis, China is similarly |
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