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On a recent flight from Chicago to Houston I decided to take in a podcast published by Ted from the great preacher and pastor Billy Graham. The podcast was from a 1998 TED conference held in Southern California with the theme of technology. Rev Graham in his address notes that technology and innovation is nothing new. He clearly and effectively draws parallels of today’s advances in the micro-chip to that of the introduction of the Iron Age invented by the Hittites during the reign of King David in 1010 BC.

The Iron age revolutionized the way society functioned through productivity gains by way of better tools, agriculture methods and weaponry. Like the iron age the information age is advancing productivity improvements, enhancing interaction and changing the way our society wage’s war. Yet, just like in King David’s time the Iron Age never did solve all of human’s problems. Technology will never solve:

1. Human Evil
2. Human Suffering
3. Human Mortality

I encourage you to watch this video or download the podcast and reflect. Consider Thomas Edison who once said “When you see everything that is happening in the world of science and in the working of the universe, you cannot deny that their is a captain on the bridge”