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To Our Readers
Just how far
will we go in becoming a mechanized society? Will we ourselves eventually become "mechanized"—robots, in effect? Consider these four bits of information found on the Internet the other day:
• Several international companies are thinking about implanting microchips in their employees to better measure where, when, and how employees spend their time on the job.
• Biochip implants, monitored by satellites, could track an individual's whereabouts and serve to locate people lost in the wilderness.
• A science journal has reported that a microchip technique has been developed to influence a person's brain– cell activity and talk directly to the brain's neurons.
Experts say it's inevitable that technology will assist humankind in marvelous new ways in the near future. And this is cause for gratitude. But some are asking urgently, Will we, at some point in the not-so-distant future, wake up to discover that we have become part human, part machine—controlled primarily by biochip implants and electrochemical activity in the brain?
Surely this cannot be. The only governing factor in the universe is God, who is Spirit and Love. And we are the expressions of God, never to become an entanglement of flesh and bones, software and hardware. The spiritual unity of God and His child is intact, forever.
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January 8, 2001 issue
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To Our Readers
Bill Dawley
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Ernest C. Pearson, Ruth Schulman, Dee Mahuvawalla, Betty Keith
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items of interest
with contributions from Robert J. Bliwise, Paula Rinehart
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From Robert to robot: what about future identity?
By Patricia Tupper Hyatt
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Virtual spirituality?
By David Cramer
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Find your worth
By Kathleen J. Wiegand
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Present parent conclusions
By Zoë Landale
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Resting on the move
By Perry W. Fisher
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Pack 'n pray
By Jonathon Moore
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Dear Sentinel
Casey Turpen
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Diagnosed cancer healed
Karen Walsh
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Grateful to God
Subhash Malhotra
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The power of God was applicable
Heather Zurlo
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No longer vulnerable to poison ivy
Grover Torbert
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Instantly able to walk
Ally Baker
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Hug the neighborhood
By Toni Wengler
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How to know what you really want
Margaret Rogers