Our Guest Ed Hindson

Sid:  My guest by way of telephone is the assistant chancellor at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, Ed Hindson. Now Ed has written a brand new book called “Future Wave.” He teamed up with a futurist by the name of… a real high-tech person by the name of Lee Frederickson and went next few years, up to 20 years in the future, and brought current technology and current understanding and tied it together in reference to the last days as prophesied in the Bible and it’s fascinating reading. You know I couldn’t help but think Adolf Hitler his… I mean he had a perverted mind and he wanted to make what he called the “Super Race” by breeding the super humans together. He didn’t even have a clue Ed in reference to what’s going on with computers, and microchips… I mean I never even thought about this, but you put one of these chips as you point out in your book into someone’s brain and you have a super human. Elaborate on that.

Ed:  Hitler of course was limited by the medical technology of his own day and age, and they were using all kinds of bizarre surgical methods to try to accomplish because the technology had not yet been developed thank God at that point and time.

Sid:  Just go a little bit further than that, can you picture with what we know about cloning today if a mad man like Hitler had known those things?

Ed:  Yeah he would have done everything he could to eliminate everybody he disagreed with; cloned probably himself and people like himself so that he could have created a race of people that would have brought in what he would have called a “Perfect World” by his definition.  It would have been a nightmare. The question is, is it going to become a nightmare in the future in our generation when we have the ability to do those kind of things and start making decisions about who’s medically acceptable or unacceptable, or socially acceptable or unacceptable, or even religiously acceptable or unacceptable? What kind of people do we want the world to have as the future generation if we have the ability to determine what that generation is going to be like?

Sid:  Well tell me based on your research what can we expect from these biochip implants?  What will they accomplish?

Ed:  Well there’s going to be several things, first of all they’re going to be able to dispense medication in the body. They can control your blood sugar, they can control your heart rate and things that we’re using like a pacemaker to do right now can all be done eventually by these chips. They’re going to have tremendous health benefits for people. People are going to probably live much longer in a much more healthy productive life because of that. The ones that they’re talking about implanting in the brain are going to be able to control the whole flow of the chemicals and the neurotransmitters in the brain so that you can avoid things like dementia, Alzheimer’s etcetera. People will be able to think more clearly longer, but the problem is going to become when you combine all of that with now the mapping of the human genome, and the ability to genetically determine what is causing various malfunctions in the body and correct those at the genetic level. You’re going to end up eventually with what some people are calling “Designer Children.” People are going to say “Look I want a kid with blonde hair, blue eyes; I want him to have an IQ in such and such a range.  I want him be able to score 1800 on an SAT test and be qualified to go to Harvard if necessary. Give me the brightest child possible.” Then they’re also going to say “Give me an athlete that can make it into pro baseball, or football or whatever.” Nobody’s going to walk in say “Give me a short chubby child that is an average mentality really nice person.”

Sid:  Huh.

Ed:  We’re going to end up trying to predetermine what our kids look like, what the next generation is going to look like. All of a sudden you’re going to see the ability of somebody from the outside to control all of that, and that becomes a scary question in light of Bible prophecy.

Sid:  How big will this chip be?

Ed:  Oh it’s as small as a pill that you could swallow.

Sid:  Could you literally swallow this?

Ed:  You could literally swallow the pill. That is what they are saying, which is actually a chip which would then stay in your system and attach itself to the stomach lining and begin to function on an almost microscopic level inside the human body. We already have technology where they can put a TV camera inside of you and look around, and go inside your veins and arteries and other parts of the body and look for problems in order to correct them. If we had something in each person permanently that could do that, you could go to the hospital they could plug you in so to speak to the TV screen and look all through your body see what’s going on inside of you. That has tremendous benefits for people health wise. Also means that you’re submitting yourself to control from the outside, somebody else is predetermining what’s best for you.

Sid:  Now let’s go back to what I said earlier, would it be possible to put one of these memory chips inside of a human and he would have all the resources of a Library of Congress at your disposal?

Ed:  Exactly! The technology people are calling it the “Global Brain.” That eventually not only will computers be faster than ever and be able to give you more information more quickly, but it can also be translated in a wireless manner and it could actually come right into the chip inside your mind; so that the chip could make available to you. Yeah, the whole research of information that is available on the internet automatically. The ability and the potential to do this kind of thing is going to change the way we think, it’s going to change the way we live, and it’s going to determine even in some cases how long we live.

Sid:  You know the wildest science fiction writers never came up with scenarios like what we have actually already developed.

Ed:  Nope. The building up of knowledge exponentially is what causes this…

Sid:  Isn’t this by the way something connected with what Daniel prophesied for the last days?

Ed:  Exactly! That knowledge would increase, that the ability of travel and speed would accelerate etcetera and we’re already seeing that. The 20^th century brought us a gigantic leap beyond previous history. When we think in the last 100 – 130 years you had the invention of things like a lightbulb, an automobile, an airplane, the television, the computer, the radio. Every time knowledge jumps to a new level it enables you to jump to the next level even more effectively even quicker so that what it took mankind centuries to figure out now happens in a matter of years. So that the latest technology is almost outdated almost before it’s on the market.

Sid:  It’s almost like, and I don’t know if you’ve sensed this same thing, but I’ve been feeling this very strongly lately. It’s almost as if time is being compressed, everything is speeding up.

Ed:  We’re at a point in the development of human history where the technology is going so fast we cannot keep up with it intellectually, we certainly cannot keep up with it emotionally and morally.  So that the technology is being developed before people can even raise the ethical question of “Should we even be doing this?”

Sid:  People throughout history, it’s easy looking back, finds some more difficult in the future, have been so negative and pessimistic. For instance, in chapter 2 of your book the chapter is called “The Future is Now” you have famous people like an executive at Western Union in 1876 said “The telephone has too many short comings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” Then Professor Marshall Falcon 1912, he said “Airplanes have no military value.” Who is Professor Falcon?

Ed:  He actually ended up becoming the field marshal of the allied forces in World War 2.

Sid:  Oh my, did he eat his words (laughing).

Ed:  He said they didn’t even use airplanes and the first couple of times they sent those biplanes in the war they through bricks at each other trying to knock the other guys plane out of the sky. Shot at each other with rifles.

Sid:  Hmm.

Ed:  It took a while before somebody got the idea why not just take a bomb and drop it from the airplane on a target down below. Then all of a sudden the nature of warfare changed dramatically. We can’t even imagine what it would be like to fight an all-out major world war today with weapons of mass destruction that could literally annihilate millions of people in seconds.

Sid:  The chairman founder of IBM Thomas Watson quote 1943, “I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers.” How could he even think that?

Ed:  (Laughing) He didn’t think that anybody outside of the United States would even be interested in this sort of thing. They were so expensive and so big, so clumsy, so complicated that why would people bother and didn’t realize… see once you show a man in a primitive society a flashlight he’s not going to go around carrying a torch any longer he’s going to want the flashlight. Once you show somebody how to communicate by a radio they’re not going to yell at each other over long distance or send telegraph. Once you show them a television set and a satellite transmission and point of sale terminal in their store, they’re gonna go for the technology because the technology makes their life more convenient, more effective. Everything is done quicker, and faster, and better, but the irony is at the same time we become the victim of success of our own technology. Everybody today has a calculator pretty soon you’ll have a whole generation of people that can’t add or subtract without the calculator because we’re dependent on the technology. So even if the technology is good it has a tendency to make us so dependent on it we can’t function without it. I like to tell people “You can just conquer America by shutting off the electricity.”

Sid:  There are books being written that the next war will be not even a nuclear war it’ll be a technology war. Just jam our computers and you’ll bring us to our knees.

Ed:  Exactly! So that if you do that a society is built on and depends on and functions with it, if you can stop all of that you have them totally confused. We have people in our office that are totally confused every time their computer shuts down they act like “I don’t know what to do?”

Sid:  (Laughing) Bill Gates you quote this in 1981 who, who hasn’t heard of Bill Gates of course. Here’s his quote “640 thousand bytes of memory ought to be enough for anybody.” Where are we at today?

Ed:  Oh we’re hundreds and hundreds of thousands, millions of bytes beyond that now. It’s just unbelievable people want more and more ability for memory, more and more speed, they want it to go faster. Eventually it’s going to go so quickly that you’ll be able to communicate with anybody worldwide instantaneously on a computerized device that’s no bigger than a watch.

Sid:  Sort of the like the Dick Tracy watch, a reality?

Ed:  You’ll have people running around in the future talking to their watch. We have people now that have said “Yeah I was in the airport the other day and we got in a van to go to get the rental car, and the guy was sitting there just talking into thin air. Suddenly I realized he’s got a little device in his ear hooked to a phone in his pocket…”

Sid:  Ed we’re out of time.