Earlier today I was sat in a restaurant in Salisbury with my former pastor and friend, during our conversation I accessed my laptop computer screen from my iPad. No big deal you may say and I would agree, but imagine such a scenario 28 years ago just about the time when I started to work in IT. IBM System 36’s and DEC PDP 11-23’s were still the order of the day and as for the PC it was still some years away to say nothing of the tablet devices which million of people are running around with today.
Has all this technology – which we are promised will enhance our lives, really lived up to the promises of the marketeers and purveyors of innumerable gadgets, all of which seem to irradiate us with electro magnetic radiation very close to the wavelength of our microwave ovens?
A well educated and influential man back in the 1st century AD once said, “With food and clothing – be content”. Was he right, Is that all we need to be content? Yes if the Prince of Peace is ruling in our hearts then all will be well.