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Pandemonium's Engine (Paperback)
Thomas Horn, Nita Horn, Gary Stearman, Noah Hutchings, Chuck Missler, …
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In every generation, when dangers gather, there is a group of men
and women courageous enough to confront evil and inform the
populace.Sometimes unpleasant truths need to be presented; most of
us would rather stand back and kick a toe in the dirt. You know,
let someone else do it. Someone else is courageous enough to tell
us the truth. Tom Horn & Friends research, publish, and speak
about some of the most important topics of our time. Pandemonium?'s
Engine is the vehicle through which Tom and an elite team of
commentators are informing a still-sleeping public about radical
changes coming to our culture very soon.In particular, the
technological advances that have brought us to the doorstep of
life-altering realities are such that the man-on-the-street is
struggling to make sense of our world. The book you are about to
read is a landmark offering, making such issues as transhumanism
compelling reading. A shadowy world of intrigue, power-grabs, and
seismic changes in daily life is the stuff of sci-fi movies. Yet
the authors contributing to Pandemonium?'s Engine show us in
disturbing detail that these mind-blowing technologies are quite
real.For example, Cris D. Putnam writes in Christian Transhumanism:
Pandemonium?'s Latest Ploy: Transhumanism is a transnational
technocratic trend that promises to break through human biological
limitations by radically redesigning humanity. Sound like a campy
Star Trek episode, or a movie plot from Stanley Kubrick?As a matter
of fact, they are, but rooted in present reality. Change agents in
our world are working feverishly to harness the powers of human
ingenuity, to wreak havoc on our way of life. Chuck Missler writes
in Pandora?'s Box for the 21st Century? The Sorcerer?'s Apprentice
that the seductiveness of medical advances mask a diabolical
agenda. For example, he mentions that the drive to, among other
things, develop receptors that could impinge the constriction of
blood vessels and thus the scourge of hypertension is a source of
optimism. As are drugs that inhibit damage from brain trauma, or
genetic research that could cure diabetes.But Chuck knows that some
researchers would trample over ethical boundaries and move past
such positive research into frontiers humans were not meant to
go.Frederick Meekins chapter, Examples of Transhumanism in Popular
Culture identifies how we have been brought along to accept
technologies. We ve been conditioned, by popular television series
like Star Trek, and films like Spiderman, to subtly be prepared for
radical, sweeping tampering with the human mind and body.John
McTernan writes about embodied intelligence robots, biocomputers,
and other space-age technologies many of us have made the mistake
of believing lie in the realm of fiction. Providing perspective is
Noah Hutchings, who traces advances in technology from the time of
another Noah, to the present time.All these authors, and several
more, provide a searing report on just how ambitious the builders
of the New Babel really are. Pandemonium?'s Engine will stun
you.That?'s good. You need to wake up. History shows that those who
make reasonable preparations are much better equipped to deal with
colossal changes than those who prefer to fully trust their
handlers.I well remember the days when my uncle was on the ground
floor of computer technology, tinkering with those machines the
size of refrigerators. I remember reading George Orwell?'s 1984 and
laughing that such a far-in-the-future could actually arrive. We
are well past 1984, figuratively and literally. Pandemonium?'s
Engine will show you just how far past. Read and prepare.
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