Morality

Over the weekend I saw a very interesting interview on TheBlaze.com.  Glenn Beck was interviewing Ray Kurzweil, a true genius (KurzweilAI.net).  Kurzweil has been able to predict technological advancement with eighty to ninety percent accuracy since the '90s.  He is also an inventor and the creative mind behind many of Google's advancements.  One of the most interesting aspects of the interview though was based around morality.

At one point Kruweil begins to explain how one day computers will be able to answer questions you may have before you ask them.  How so?  By reading every bit of information you enter into them, including text messages, emails, internet searches, websites, phone calls, etc.  One person I know already experienced this when he received unsolicited directions from his phone to an address in an email sent by a friend.  This worried Beck.  He pondered who may be able to get that information and how they could use it.  He pointed to an enormous government database facility in Utah with the sole purpose of storing information (Wired.com).  Kurzweil's response: "Technology is a double-edged sword."

The cliche was repeated several times as Beck pressed Kurzweil on other topics.  Kurzweil says nanobots will be injected into our blood stream to fight disease, yet he acknowledged that bio-terrorists could use it to cause harm.  He is working on decoding to the human brain to create artificial intelligence, and Beck was worried that could lead to a type of eugenics where the "perfect human" is created.  Again, the previous catch phrase was used as Kurzweil answered. 

Which leads me to morality.  The next day on his radio program, Beck said the Kurweil's response about the "double-edged" sword was insufficient.  He argued that these are real concerns that Kurweil seemed to shrug off.  That's when it hit me: morality is no longer a factor in American life.

I admit that what Kurzweil describes is exciting, but I can definitely see the dangers.  If we create an artificial intelligence that acts just like a human mind, could that lead to more effective means of control?  If technology can predict your future actions and thoughts, will it lead to a Minority Report situation as Glenn Beck fears?  Can one hacker hold an entire world hostage as he threatens to turn nanobots against us?  And why doesn't Kurweil take some responsibility for what he is predicting and proposing?  Why not come up with ideas to counter bio-terrorism, prevent brainwashing, and guard against eugenics and improper use of technology-based information?  Instead he simply passes it off and focuses on promoting his predictions.

When the Progressives began to destroy the country, the first thing they had to do was eliminate morality.  That's why they went after Christianity.  Much of our nation, including the Founding, is based on Judeo-Christian values and morals.  The Progressives eliminated that to garner support for their ideas, such as euthanasia, abortion, eugenics, stealing from earners to give to those who refuse to earn, etc., all of which require immorality.  Not to mention that morality is needed for the proper application of capitalism and government.

Unfortunately moral decay has become moral death.  When a society simply forges forward without any regard for what it may mean to the individual, the only thing anyone can be sure of is loss of freedom.