Are we in the midst of a computer/digital revolution?

[Robert_Sock]

Why don’t we ever hear the term “revolution” in the media? Is the revolution planned or is it taking place randomly? Will the revolution eventual bring people closer to God?

 

[Garyjohn2]

Why don’t we ever hear the term “revolution” in the media? Is the revolution planned or is it taking place randomly? Will the revolution eventual bring people closer to God?

Hmm…I think the revolution has already taken place. It was the internet, basically. Now are just the after-effects, spin-offs, and innovations from that.

I don’t know how to answer the question if it was planned or not. The inventions were made on purpose and surely planned, but I doubt anyone knew how the internet and computers would change the world in such a drastic way.

I can’t say if it will being people closer to God. For some it will, for some it won’t! Depends on how its used. Kind of like the industrial revolution.

Side question: was the industrial revolution called such at the time? I bet it was a label given to the era afterwards by historians.

 

[Robert_Sock]

I personally thing that we are at the beginning of the computer/digital revolution. I also think that this technology is well planned by a civilization of human individuals far more advanced than we are. I also believe that this technology will lead to God.

 

[Margie9]

I wonder if any man-made invention leads us to God. Instead everything eventually seems to sink to the lowest level of depravity. EG:

Movies - started great, funny, uplifting (even with no sound and no special effects) and now most are smut, trash, sexist and stupid.

Radio - the boon of civilization, the miracle of instant communication. Now, top 40, rap, and NPR.

TV - wholesome, family programs, lots of Catholic shows. Now, you can’t even watch for 5 minutes without a Viagra commercial. The shows themselves are full of violence, sex, and gross behavior.

Cell phones - wonderful! Communication! Teens sexting.

When the internet was first going commercial, all we could get was the Smithsonian Institute. All demos were connecting with that august institution and everyone stood around amazed and thrilled, this would bring education to the masses, this would revolutionize access to knowledge and help children. What is most internet usage? Porn, stupid blogs with people “yelling”, meaningless Twitter statements, etc.

Sure there is some good and bad in any invention. But leading to God? That I just don’t see.

 

[TimothyH]

I wonder if any man-made invention leads us to God. Instead everything eventually seems to sink to the lowest level of depravity. EG:

Movies - started great, funny, uplifting (even with no sound and no special effects) and now most are smut, trash, sexist and stupid.

Radio - the boon of civilization, the miracle of instant communication. Now, top 40, rap, and NPR.

TV - wholesome, family programs, lots of Catholic shows. Now, you can’t even watch for 5 minutes without a Viagra commercial. The shows themselves are full of violence, sex, and gross behavior.

Cell phones - wonderful! Communication! Teens sexting.

When the internet was first going commercial, all we could get was the Smithsonian Institute. All demos were connecting with that august institution and everyone stood around amazed and thrilled, this would bring education to the masses, this would revolutionize access to knowledge and help children. What is most internet usage? Porn, stupid blogs with people “yelling”, meaningless Twitter statements, etc.

Sure there is some good and bad in any invention. But leading to God? That I just don’t see.

I agree.

Much good will come of it. And much bad. But leading to God?

They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.” (Genesis 11:3-4)

The bricks and mortar represents the people’s ingenuity. Through it, they try to reach heaven by “Building a tower with its top in the sky.” It is the the author’s way of telling us that these people made the same mistake Adam and Eve made. They had bought into Satan’s like that you can be like God.

All through the Bible, people are renamed by God. God names man and thereby gives man his identity. Man’s name, given to him by God, is indicative of his relationship to God. Man’s identity is relative to God. But in Genesis 2, God allows man to name the beasts. The beast’s idenity is relative to man. God renames Abram, Sari, Jacob, and Caiphas/Petros/Peter/Rock. In doing so he gives man his idenity and that idenity is exactly found in who he is relative to God.

But the people who built the tower wanted to make a name for themselves. We have to be careful we don’t do that, start to think that we are any better because we have the internet. Look at my blog! Like me on facebook! Look at my post on CAF and how many friends I have!!!

We have to be very careful of how we use the internet, and all technology, and what we think of ourselves for doing so, remembering all the time that we are weak, broken in fact, held together with staples and tape, and that if God left us for one moment, we would sink immediately to the lowest depths of depravity.

-Tim-

 

[Garyjohn2]

Tim, your posts always make me think. Thanks again.

 

[Bill_G]

I do not know if this is a digital revolution but I can tell you it sure is having a drastic and disruptive influence on the established business that cannot seem to adapt to the changing ways that people want to consume the media content such as music, movies, TV show, books and news. So it will only be time and looking back on this time if this will be the digital revolution or not. I think we are in it and I do not think it is over yet.