TOM: Now then, if course it’s time for me, uh, to give you my extended 3-hour presentation on trans-humanism.
AUDIENCE: (LAUGHTER) TOM: Yes, I am joking. And, uh, I’d better make that clear before Sid himself comes up here and throws me off of this stage. Uh, all right, that’s funny. What I’m want to talk to you about, and I will, you’re going to have to make your ears hear me fast because to cover this amount of material there might be times when I talk a little bit fast which is kind of a bad habit I have, uh, anyway but I do want to talk to you about something now that is not so funny.
I want to talk to you about the coming technological singularity, there’s a phrase. I want to talk to you about trans-humanism. I want to talk to you most specifically about the coming human enhancement revolution because, ladies and gentlemen, unknown to probably most people in the traditional churches today there is a war that is coming. And it’s worse than the Terminator movies. Literally around the world today, there are people who are dedicated, now we’re talking about from executive levels of governments on down, we’re talking about national leaders, military leaders, academia, uh, some of the world’s most famous philosophers.
And they are committed to what can only be thought of as fulfilling the next step in human evolution. I am talking about trans-humanism. Somebody said I should clarify what trans-humanism is. In a nutshell trans-humanism is the idea that we now hold it within our grasp to permanently alter, and in their mind for the betterment, the human race. We are going to brain machine-interface ourselves with strong artificial intelligence systems that may even allow us to communicate with God, they think, in ways that we can’t do right now just through the Holy Spirit and the Christian belief, uh, in redemption. We are going to at the germ line genetic level we are going to permanently undo DNA in humans as it has been understood and we are going to create a superior model.
