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The Two Sides of Technology



Technology is moving at such a rapid rate that few (even the most savy nerds) can keep up. Technology has offered us tools that have changed how we organize our lives and how we relate to our world. Technology is a double-sided sword; it has the power to inform and create and the power to infect and destroy. It is like a cybernetic drug, that if used correctly can cure the disease of ignorance and incompetence, but if used poorly can pervert cause the patient to perish.

Technology in It's pure form is capable of the following virtues:

Teaching
Educate
Creativity
Heal
Navigate
Open-mind
Learn
Grow
Yearn

Technology can help teachers teach students diverse subjects. It can help educate the unlearned or ignorant. It can be used for great creativity such as art, music, film, video games, and etc. It can help people access methods to heal emotionally, spiritually, and physically; you can find sites, videos, and eBooks that will help you heal. It can help you navigate the world via GPS or through information via the Web. It can help you have an open mind and let you see events and people with a diverse perspective. It can help you learn everything from how to cook an omlette to how open your own private business. It can help you grow intellectually and sociologically. And finally it will make you yearn for more of all of these.

Through technology we can connect to a larger world than ever. Long ago people had to be content with living in a small town and meeting only select amount of people. Now we can talk to people in the US, Europe, Asia, The Middle-East and beyond right in the comfort of our own homes. This blog itself is a product of technology. Because of that technology I am able to post my thoughts and allow you readers to read them.

Alas, with all these blessings come the vices or vicious nature of this technology we hold so dear.

Technology in it's perverted form is:

Temptation  
Envy 
Careless
Harmful  
Narcissistic 
Offensive
Lustful  
Oppressive
Guilty 
Yielding

Here are the vices that Technology has amplified in our lives. Temptation in every form at our hands. Envy festering inside us from seeing those with glamorous live. Careless behavior regarding what we post or disclose online. Harmful behavior like cyber-bullying. Narcissism, now people pay more attention to their cell phones and computer thaner human beings. Offensive material published on blogs, websites, and other digital forums. Lustful images and lascivious videos available. The feeling of oppression over being constantly monitored and scrutinized on social networking sites. Guilt from treating people unkindly and hiding behind a username. And finally yielding to every form of sin imaginable in digital form.

It is clear that these tools that our at our disposal have two-edges and our capable of two different outcomes. One plows a path for the future and gives us access to more information than before. The other pulverizes what God has placed before us. It perverts what Christ intended for good and like a virus infects more and more people. Technology is a tool and it can be used for great good and great evil. We as Christians must be mindful of this double-edged sword and seek to draw out the virtues and avoid the vices. It is because of Technology I can share this post, but it is also because of technology that people are enslaved to pernicious pleasures. We must be wise with our devices and allow God and His Word to guide us in this cybernetic future.
 

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