Can we manage the risks of walking blindly into the Mark of the Beast 666 system? Technology seems to be already taking on some characteristics of the Beast system as we find it described in the Book of Revelation. Personally, I am trying to resist use of the new AI versions of tablets, computers, and smartphones. Surveillance will, in my opinion, gradually develop into something dystopian, as the time of the rise of the Beast empire and its Antichrist ruler gets ever nearer. I assume the mark of the Beast will be run as a global technological system coupled with the ‘speaking image’ of the Beast, which might be something like an awry global AI system. Surveillance will, I think, underpin this system. Am I protected from the surveillance, merely by avoiding technology? Even without using the latest devices, I might still be very vulnerable, because I might be communicating with those who do use these devices, even if I avoid technology as much as possible. Just walking into a bank or government office of shop, I will find my details being entered, perhaps invisibly (such as with RFID chips used today which ping us as we leave a store), onto devices with the technology. Note too, there are new ‘companion’ and ‘client side scanning’ concepts around today which might, apparently, mean virtually no privacy in the near future, even if you are not connected to Internet.
I expect soon almost all new devices will have AI built in, which gathers comprehensive information about you even when you are not online. Your phone provider might only offer such devices, and they make phone use impossible without using them. Furthermore, if companies develop their websites for customers paying bills, paying debts, purchasing, etc., such that they only work on the AI enabled smartphones, computers, and tablets then we might all be forced to have these info gathering devices. Right now, all this is not yet the dystopia I am anticipating. I expect the developing technology will go far beyond what it is today. Smart cities, smart devices, smart meters will all, I expect, converge with AI and become a smart empire in which everything is driven by AI and everything has client side scanning in all government and corporate services. Then all that remains will be the introduction of political policies which regard anyone not part of all this as a liability and danger to a new globalised smart empire, and, lastly, a boastful proud blasphemer to rise to be a presider over it all. Perhaps years from now the situation is likely to be something unimaginable today, but Revelation gives us hints what it will look like, just before the Christ comes and overrides it all. Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, as sheep will need to be in a world of wolves.
