4| Perhaps Today | May-June 2008 silicon in electrical equipment, it lives. In his book, "Techno Futures,"James Canton of technotu.com outlines the top computer trends for the 21st century. Computers will become powerful extensions of human beings, designed toaugment intelligence, learning communications, and productivity. Computers will become intuitive — they will learn, recognize, and know what we want, who we are, and even what we desire. They're alive! Computers will have digital senses —speech, sight, smell, and hearing —enabling them to communicate with humans and other machines. The international dictator will use such a computer, fashioned after his likeness (Revelation 13:14), to enslave the inhabitants of earth. He will effectively do this through commerce— the buying and selling of products. Revelation 13:16,17 states, And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name . This forthcoming computer of the ages will give the Antichrist all the information necessary for him to govern the world. Its memory bank will know the number, record, and history of every living person! This number will definitely include "666"in one manner or another (Rev elation 13:18). I believe it will be a prefix, such as 666-7, 666- 300, etc. Every individual credit card number must have some differentiation to distinguish one person from another. If all credit cards were identical, there would be mass con fusion. Similarly, there will be some variance along with the "666" marking. Some students of Bible prophecy theorize that this number will actually be composed of the international, national, and area computer codes presently in use (or being implemented) plus an individual number, such as the person's Social Security Number. The present inter national computer code is "6,"and this is antici pated to expand to "666."The national computer identification code for the United States is "110." Within our nation are many area codes presently used for telephone communication. Thus, by using each of these codes in sequence, ending with the Social Security or other assigned num ber, every man, woman, and child within our borders could be individually identified. Such a number might be 666-110-212-419-27-2738. Now I want to report a startling mathemati cal equation which was worked out on current computers by Col. Henry C. MacQueen, Sr., of Saratoga, California. He took the three six-digit units, which, with their permutations of numbers came out to N-60, and multiplied them by three. I don't expect you to understand the depth of the statement which I am about to make because I personally can only repeat what the computers revealed. I, too, am unable to grasp the enormity of the following figures. I state them to show you that each of earth's six-and-one-half-billion inhabitants could possess his own personal number through the permutations of the figures described as "666."In fact, the computers arrived at the con clusion that 46,834,995,519,212,567,931,529,902,559,000 (forty- six nonillion, eight hun dred thirty-four octillion, nine hundred ninety-five septillion, five hundred- nineteen sextillion, two hundred-twelve quintillion, five hundred sixty-seven quadrillion, nine hundred thirty-one trillion, five hundred twenty-nine bil lion, nine hundred-two million, five hundred fifty-nine thousand) human beings could each have his own number. Six hundred sixty-six, with its permutations, fits the bill, even if tril lions more should be born