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Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times is unavailable, but you can change that!

You only live once—if then. Life is short, and it can be as easily wasted as lived to the full. In the midst of our harried modern world, how do we make the most of life and the time we have? In these fast and superficial times, Os Guinness calls us to consequential living. In strong contrast to both Eastern and secularist views of time, he reorients our very notion of history, not as cyclical...

In that sense, as long predicted by Irving Good and other experts on artificial intelligence, our humility, our responsibility, and our capacity to corrupt freedom will be exposed as never before. What will be our attitude to such ultra-intelligent machines, and what will theirs be to us? For better or ill, they could indeed be “the final machines” and “the last invention that man need ever make.”16 The Bible’s portrayal of humanity is the highest form of “humanism” in
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