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our lifetimes.
(I don’t know your age, but if you are old enough to read this you are old enough to already have experienced many platforms, even if you haven’t started your second decade. And most, of course, have many more decades behind us.)
I used to try to stay ahead of the trends — VHS and Beta, CDs and DVDs, personal computers, this internet thing, cell phones.
Then I tried to keep up with the trends — Facebook, My Space, E-bay, PayPal, iPods, iPads, iBooks, iPhones, iGive-up.
Now, I hope to still be able to see the trends rushing off in the distance ahead of me — AI, AI, AI.....
Still, is it not remarkable what we have experienced in our lifetimes? Any lifetimes? I can hear the voices of my parents and their parents saying similar things when they were the age I am now, although their comments had more to do with inventions that made life easier — appliances, automobile accessories, home and lawn care, food preparation and preservation.
The end of the 1800s and start of the 1900s, people went into their barns and invented gadgets that changed the world. In the last fifty years, people went into their dorm rooms or dining rooms and invented ways to change the world.
To travel anywhere without leaving home!
I don’t have to make your list of techno miracles; you can make your own, and with this element of God’s hand upon it.
Everything that has come down the highway (or superhighway) as a way of communicating, Christians have embraced in order to share the Gospel. From Guttenberg’s movable type printing press to the latest Tik-Tok reels app, Christians have been putting the Word of God and the love of Jesus out there, in ways only God can inspire.
And while every technology has its dark side, that is only because of the dark side of the human heart.
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