WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

A friend recently sent me an email:

"WOW! you must watch this… This will absolutely blow
your mind. An interesting presentation given to Sony
executives at their last meeting...

http://www.flixxy.com/technology-and-education-2008.htms
(cut and paste the URL for a 5 minute show)


After watching the 5 minute show, I replied:

Very interesting! But the key question came at the very end: WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

I think of two statments, one by Solomon and the other by John.

"Of the making of many books, there is no end."

"There are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written."

Neither the speed of computation nor the amount of data available can impart wisdom. What it can do is to provide liars with more statistics to overwhelm us with their lies. (Figures don't lie, but liars figure!) This massive amount of information can give an appearance of wisdom without substance.

Yes, let's use the tools technology provides - but understand that the individual human mind is bombarded by these millions of bits of informatiion every day. With what result? Many times we just become so overwhelmed we drop out of the process of thinking.

It is in the face of all of this that we need to relearn the virtues of solitude, silence and meditation as spiritual disciplines. "Come apart and rest a while," said the Lord.

Perhaps we need to listen.