Technology must heed the warning of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – One can only wonder what would have happened if the tech elites had heeded the prophetic warning of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1965, he warned that “unless guided by God’s spirit, modern technology “could transform our society into a “devastating Frankenstein” bringing our earthly life to ashes. Now some 60 years later I find myself attempting to walk in King’s footsteps, without his brilliance, but still struggling to tell the same story in my new book, The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah. Technology and the End Times. Related Stories It continues King’s warning of the danger of our machine culture displacing authentic humans made in the image of God with robots – artificial human substitutes – made in the image of humans, many of whom harbor deep biases of racism, sexism and encoded inequality. This strange vision of the possible tragic consequences of a godless technology was not something this writer pursued. It was a strange prophetic encounter that pursued me to try to understand why God cared so much about technology. And if He does care so much, why do some of us seemingly care so little? The pursuit began with a surprising revelation...