Tech That Restores
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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In the age of remarkable technological feats, we must check our hubris from time to time.
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| 0:00.0 | With a |
| 0:04.1 | look at culture from a Christian worldview. I'm John Stone Street with the point. At the beginning of the year |
| 0:05.4 | 29 year old Nolan Arball had a tiny computer implanted into his brain. Arball's |
| 0:10.2 | paralyzed from the shoulders down. Now a few months after the surgery he can play computer |
| 0:14.8 | chess with his mind. The brain implant invented by billionaire Elon Musk Company, Neurrelink, |
| 0:20.8 | interprets the electrical activity from Arball's neurons as movements of his computer's cursor. |
| 0:25.8 | Must said he hopes that Neurling can continue to help people with disabilities to recover skills |
| 0:30.3 | they thought they'd long lost. This is definitely a remarkable |
| 0:33.6 | achievement of our technology which could make possible all kinds of |
| 0:36.8 | potential goods. However, there's also plenty of potential harms, |
| 0:40.3 | something that historically speaking humans aren't always able to foresee. |
| 0:44.0 | And a biblical view of human ingenuity and technology, just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. |
| 0:49.0 | Within a secular worldview, there's no grounding for that moral distinction, |
| 0:52.0 | and our hubris can prevent our ethics from keeping |
| 0:55.0 | up with our technology. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm John Stone Street. |
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