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Breakpoint

Can Technology Save the World?

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Recently, the FDA approved a brain-implanted computer chip, developed by Elon Musk's company Neuralink, for human trials. 

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With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

0:05.0

Recently, the FDA approved a brain implant to computer chip, developed by Elon Musk company

0:09.9

Nurellink for human trials.

0:11.9

The chips called the link and embeds on the brain's surface and sends electrical signals

0:15.6

to an external computer.

0:17.3

Musk hopes that the invention can enable patients to complete computer actions with their

0:21.3

thoughts, like using a mouse or a keyboard or even texting.

0:25.0

Musk believes that his new technology will be especially helpful for those individuals

0:28.7

with disabilities such as paralysis or even allowing the blind to see in the mood to

0:33.1

communicate.

0:34.1

As mind-blowing as technology like this can be, it should always remind us of both

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attention and the temptation of living in the already not yet place between redemption

0:43.2

and restoration.

0:44.8

Technology, when rightly used, can be restorative, helping us overcome the effects of the fall.

0:49.4

However, even our best technologies cannot save the world, can never fully fix the human

0:54.2

condition, nor can it usher in a utopian age.

0:57.7

We have to always keep distinct humans made in God's image from the technologies that

1:02.7

are made by humans.

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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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